Scala Love in the City
Saturday, February 13, 2021
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PST
A Visual Language for Types
Join Stream
Scala has a highly expressive type system for modeling sets of instances, and their properties. But it can be hard for programmers to get a good intuition for what different types represent if we only see types through the source code that describes them.
This talk will be a journey through the Scala type system, examining the wealth of types on offer in Scala 2 and Scala 3, and presenting each in a visual form, showing the relationships between them, and developing an understanding of operations such as finding the least upper-bound of a pair of types. Furthermore, we will see how the concept of categorical duality arises every step of the way.
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