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Scala Lunches at EPFL
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The Scala Center invites anyone interested in programming languages and open source to join us once a month for a lunch break. Participants get to hear from colleagues about their ongoing work and share their own stories. It’s a great opportunity to network amongst PL enthusiasts, share your passion and get some valuable input. And yes, we will speak about Scala too. :) You can expect the Scala Center and LAMP teams to be present and happy to answer any question you might have regarding their work. This is a free and open event, without any registration needed. Everyone is welcome, including people outside of EPFL. We only ask you to bring your own lunch because we never know how many people would show up nor what they like to eat. :)
| Date | Speaker | Title | Place | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2025 | James Thompson | Mill Builds in Scala 3, a migration story | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
Past Lunches
| Date | Speaker | Title | Place | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 December 2024 | Michel Davit, Senior Engineer @Spotify | The Scala journey at Spotify | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 5 November 2024 | Haoyi Li | What the com-lihaoyi ecosystem needs from Scala | BC 420, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 13 June 2024 | Adrien Piquerez | Scala Evaluation in the Debug Console | **BC 333**, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 16 May 2024 | Sébastien Doeraene | Compiling Scala.js to WebAssembly | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 11 April 2024 | Dimi Racordon | Demystifying type inference: a quick look dive into the implementation of a typer | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 14 March 2024 | Seth Tisue | Fortify for Scala: A Commercial Back-end Compiler Plugin for Static Security Analysis | **BC 229**, EPFL | **12:15pm** |
| 8 February 2024 | Andy Wingo | A New Hope: Compiling Managed Languages to WebAssembly | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 11 December 2023 | Sébastien Doeraene | Specifying Match Types in Scala 3 | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 13 November 2023 | Dimi Racordon | What does Scala look like for a Swift enthusiast? | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 2 October 2023 | Quentin Bernet | Syntax and Runtime Checks for Qualified Types in Scala 3 | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 4 September 2023 | Martin Odersky | Scala's Role in the Programming Languages Ecosystem | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 12 June 2023 | Nguyen Pham | Copying stacks for fun and profit: Experimental delimited continuations for Scala Native | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 8 May 2023 | Solal Pirelli | Safe Low-Level Code Without Overhead is Practical | BC 410, EPFL | 12:00pm |
| 8 May 2023 | Zilu Tian | Generalising Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations | BC 410, EPFL | 12:30pm |
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