Miles Sabin
Type astronaut, Typelevel co-founder and Shapeless hacker
Miles has been doing stuff with Scala for more than a decade, currently with Underscore Consulting. He is a co-founder of Typelevel and his best known project, the Scala generic programming library Shapeless, is the weapon of choice wherever boilerplate needs to be scrapped or arities abstracted over.
Past Activities
Code Mesh LDN 2018
10.35 - 11.20
Adding kind-polymorphism to the Scala programming language
Shapeless is the tool people reach for when they have problems involving abstraction over data types of different shapes and sizes. But suppose we wanted to support this sort of data type generic programming directly in Scala? What sort of primitive mechanisms would we choose? In this talk Miles will argue that kind-polymorphism, the ability to abstract over type constructors of any arity, is one we should give serious consideration to. He will demonstrate a prototype implementation in the Typelevel compiler and show how it can be used to dramatically simplify generic programming in Scala.
OBJECTIVES
Miles will convey that supposedly "advanced" programming language features can be crucial to allowing ordinary everyday programming problems to be solved in a simple and natural way.