Scala has come a long way since the summer of '04, when Miles and Jon first ran scalac. This year celebrates the ten-year anniversary of Scala's first public release, and to celebrate the occasion, we will relive some of the highlights of the last decade, taking an archaeological rummage through mailing list archives, commit messages, bug reports and some old-fashioned Scala code, semicolons and all!

In this lighthearted trip into Scala's past, we look at everything that's changed about the language since 2004, and with help from some special guests, will attempt to fight the bitrot with a vintage live-coding session on Scala version 1.3!

Jon has been developing Scala for the last decade, and has deployed Scala into startups, large corporations, government and open source. He is best known these days for his Rapture IO and JSON libraries. Despite popular belief, Jon did not invent the Cake Pattern.

Miles has been doing stuff with Scala for the last 10 years, most recently with _.underscore and Precog. Rumours that his generic programming library shapeless is an elaborate ploy to try and get people to forget that he ever had anything to do with the Scala IDE for Eclipse are entirely

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