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Tomer Gabel

Tomer Gabel

WIX, Israel

A programming junkie and computer history aficionado, Tomer’s been around the block a few times before settling at Wix as a system architect. In the last couple of years he’s developed a major crush on Scala, promoting it within the Israeli software industry as part of Java.IL (Israeli Java user group) and Underscore (Israeli Scala user group) and organizing the annual Scalapeño conference in Tel-Aviv.

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5 Bullets to Scala Adoption
May 22
45 minutes
Talk
English

Abstract: So you’ve heard of this newfangled “Scala” thing and think it might be worth checking out. Good for you! Unfortunately, it’s also daunting. Your first search for Scala is likely to pitch it as a “statically-typed hybrid object-oriented and functional language”, which is technically true but doesn’t really help much. Instead, this talk will provide an overview of the language, focusing on five highly practical advantages Scala has over Java without a brain hemorrhage-inducing paradigm shift, followed by some tips and recommendations on Scala adoption in the real world and (as time allows) open-ended Q&A.

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