South-West Scala

[ja...@ioctl.org]

These people had a showing at the recent IT Megameet.

http://www.meetup.com/South-West-Scala/

They've just started up. Less of a purely functional bent (or so Mark put
it) and more on practical Scala use - including Akka, Play, etc. Akka's
particularly interesting - it's a Scala take on Erlang's OTP (amongst
other things) - actors, supervision hierarchies, and message passing,
which is a fascinating approach if it fits your problem.


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[Mark Hudson]

Hi all,

yes, Jan is correct. First off, I'm no language/platform/whatever Zealot. No Silver bullets in computing. Who knows what computer language I will be using in ten years time.

Scala is an object-functional language, so South West Scala will certainly  always have time to discuss the functional side - which I enjoy and continue to learn with my imperative deformed mind - but the focus is on showing that given all the historical-technical. baggage we have to deal with, Scala is *another* practical language choice for getting stuff done.  Certainly Scala has some difficult parts, but also much which is familiar or very practical to people raised on C style languages. Hopefully we can help each other to learn.

Areas of discussion for SouthWest *might* include the language itself,  tools, frameworks, cool stuff people want to show off,  a chance to network, or just have a chat about computers in a friendly environment. 

Next Wednesday in the watershed bar, I will informally demo using the Spray Framework to develop a REST API with AngularJS

http://www.meetup.com/South-West-Scala/events/121772792/

PS I will try and arrange meetings to not clash with Bris Functional or SouthWest Big Data.