A presentation by Tom Lee and Michael Neale at OSDC conference, Brisbane, 2009. Why scala sucks less.

1. On Scala Or: Why Static Typing Doesn't Have to Suck

3. On Java ...

4. The Language Is Like, So 1991

5. But The VM is Okay

6. And there are libraries for everything

7. On Scala ...

11. What we want to say "I want stuff to happen when the user click a button"

14. But what about Ruby/Python/Perl?!!1!

15. Scala types are statically checked

16. Sun JVM: no GIL / green threads / etc.

17. But Scala is comparably expressive

21. The best of both worlds?

22. Other cool Scala stuff

24. Actors for concurrency

26. Pattern matching

30. Functional Programming

33. Questions?