After a bit of discussion and debate a few of us have decided to go ahead with the Detroit Day of Functional on March 25, 2017. Detroit Labs is kind enough to let us borrow their space for the day so that’s where we’ll have it. We’re charging $30 a ticket but that’s mainly to cover […]

Tweet Note: read the whole series here.   Continuing on from where we left off with traits last time around, let’s look at Scala’s case class/object which can be used to create Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) in Scala.   Case Class You can declare an ADT in F# using Discriminated Unions (DUs). For example, a binary tree might be represented

Tweet Note: read the whole series here.   Continuing on from where we left off with type inference last time around, let’s look at a language feature in Scala that doesn’t exist in F# – traits. Scala has both abstract classes and traits (think of them as interfaces, but we’ll get into the differences shortly) to support

Tweet It’s a new year, a new job, a new language (Scala) and runtime (JVM) to work with. After a week of learning about my new surroundings at Space Ape Games and getting up to speed with Scala I have learnt a fair bit. In my own journey (aided by Twitter’s Scala School, Odersky’s Coursera course and

One of the most fundamental design considerations any developer must deal with is handling change. In this article, we are primarily concerned with client-side state and changes to it. Change can be brought about by various external factors (user input such as mouse or keyboard events, server push messages, etc.) or by means internal to the application itself.