Lex Spoon

Discussion on the Scala collections revamp is starting to get mystical. It really bugs me: good language design makes a huge difference, bu...

Stephen Haberman has announced that the majority of features in GWT's "Showcase" app are now available to Scala code as well....

Martin Odersky talked today at ScalaDays about the state of Scala. Here are the highlights for me. Tools and Documentation He doesn't...

Artima has graciously agreed to post the first edition of Programming in Scala online for free . It's now easier than ever to learn abo...

Grzegorz Kossakowski gave a tech talk on his Scala+GWT project that is now online. Slides are available here . The talk was around Sept...

Guy Steele has a noble goal in mind for the Fortress library: I have noticed that when I give talks about Fortress and start talking about ...

David Pollak just announced that he is writing a Scala book : I am very excited to announce that I am writing Beginning Scala and it will be...

The Scala book is now out. Bill wrote a great article about the process: It's been a long two years, filled with much toil and struggl...

I applaud the Pragmatic Programmers for their fine choice of topic for one of their upcoming books : Scala is an exciting, modern, multi-par...