Scala is improving rapidly. This session will give you the perspective of someone in the middle of these changes.

Scala is improving rapidly. This session will give you the perspective of someone in the middle of these changes. You will learn how the Scala Improvement Process works, get to know some of the experimental features, and meet some planned but yet unimplemented.
We will look into three less-understood, yet (arguably) extremely useful constructs introduced in Cats Effect 3: Dispatcher, Supervisor, IOLocal
A short case study of a real production issue that was debugged, minimized, and fixed using property-based testing.
Understanding the exact properties that disqualify a data type from being an instance of a given abstraction turns out to be surprisingly helpful
How Scala 3 addresses concerns around implicits and how implicits work in Scala 3.