 | Jamie Thompson |
I love to share ideas about programming, whether it is though speaking, producing video tutorials, or engaging in the learning process to deliver the best materials for newcomers.
As a software engineer, my passions are programming language design, and making types work for you.
I currently work at the Scala Center on the Scala 2 and 3 compilers, Scala's documentation, and TASTy Query.
Recent Articles
| 01/02/2024 | Enhanced Simple Parsing for Scala |
| 01/08/2022 | How to write a website generator in Scala, Part 1 |
Meetups
Func Prog Sweden Feb 2024: I make an overview of latest updates to my work in the Scala 3 compiler to support pipelined builds.
SF Scala Jun 2023: I wanted to build a full-stack app with Scala CLI, so I built-in support for multi-project builds. Also a brief overview of the Scala Center with my colleagues.
ScalaWAW Dec 2022: With colleagues from Scala Center, introduce how everyday users can begin contributing to the open source community.
Conference Talks
Scala Days Seattle 2023: A summary of how Scala's incremental compilation algorithm works. We also introduce possible improvements to build times including pipelining and parallelism, with benchmarks on well-known community projects.
ScalaIO FR 2022: Introducing the Scala Community to TASTy query, a library for whole program analysis of Scala 3. Covers motivation, use cases, and live demonstration of visualising class inheritance hierarchies.
ScalaCon 2021: Post Scala 3 launch, teach users concrete steps for migration, along with a summary of my work to enable forwards compatibility with Scala 3 from Scala 2.13
f(by) 2020: A preview of the then-upcoming Scala 3; featuring the public announcement that Scala 2.13 will be forwards compatible with Scala 3 libraries.
Video Tutorials
Let's Talk About Scala 3: Get to know Scala's collections: thanks to being immutable, they are safe from data races but still provide a fluent API with powerful transformations. Learn to apply the same principles to your domain models and business logic. Eliminate boilerplate with metaprogramming. See how it all comes together in a serverless API backend.
Scala Compiler Academy: A full walkthrough of the implementation of
Mirror
synthesis
in the Scala 3 compiler, plus an overview of mirrors themselves.
Let's Talk About Scala 3: Get to know Scala's collections: thanks to being immutable, they are safe from data races but still provide a fluent API with powerful transformations. Learn to apply the same principles to your domain models and business logic. Eliminate boilerplate with metaprogramming. See how it all comes together in a serverless API backend.