Tooling Talks

A short message about the end of Season 1. Thank you so much for everyone out there listening, and I hope to see you in Season 2.

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Welcome back to another episode of Tooling Talks! I'm your host Chris and I have another exciting episode for you today. If you've been paying attention to where a handful of my guests work you'll have noticed a trend of VirtusLab employees. If you're also paying attention to who's been contributing to the Scala 3 compiler, tooling, and pushing for various efforts like scala-cli and the Scala Toolkit, you'll see their name everywhere. This month I though I'd shift gears a little bit and instead of focusing on an individual working on a tool, focus on someone managing a team of people contributing to the ecosystem. So this month I sat down with Krzysztof Romanowski and talked all about the work VirtusLab has been doing in the various areas, explored whether Scala 3 is "industry ready", and talked about some of the upcoming projects you'll see. This conversation was a great change of pace. I also want to take a moment and shine some light on some recent changes on the Tooling Talks website. You'll notice there are comment sections now on each page. Please do feel free to discuss episodes there. So without further ado, let's dive in. Thanks for joining.

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Welcome back to another episode of Tooling Talks! I'm your host Chris and I have an episode for you today that I've wanted to do for quite some time. Early on when I was first getting started with open Source Gabriele was one of the first people I interacted with. He's got a ton of experience with the Scalameta toolchain, and is one of the "founding fathers" of Metals. Furthermore, he's also part of the SIP (Scala Improvement Process) committee for Scala 3. In this talk we'll dive into the SIP process, talk about what it is, how tooling relates to it, and a bit about some of the current proposals. So without further ado, let's dive in, and thanks for joining.

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Welcome back to another episode of Tooling Talks! I'm your host Chris and I have another great episode for you this month. For a while now I've wanted to have an episode focused on the new Scaladocs for Scala 3. Completely re-written and hosting some great new features like being able to generate your entire static site, your blog and along with your API docs, as well as hoogle-like search. This episode I was able to sit down with Filip, who's spent the past couple years focused on Scaladocs and the tools around it. I'm hoping this episode helps spread the love about Scaladocs and shines a bit of light on some of these new features. So without further ado, let's dive in, and as always, thanks for joining.

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Welcome back to another episode of Tooling Talks! I'm your host Chris and I'm excited to share this episode with you. This past month I was able to sit down with Jeremy Smith and talk Notebooks, something I've been wanting to focus an episode on for a while. If you're familiar at all with Notebooks in Scala you're probably aware of Polynote, which was started by Jeremy and was the focus of our discussion. It was a pleasure to have him share his thoughts about notebook usage, building a new notebook, and some of the troubles and decisions he faced during the process. So without further ado, let's dive in, and thanks
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This week we have a special episode, a part two of the fantastic talk I had with Anton. During this episode we dive into all sorts of great stuff ranging from Neovim, language parsers, and how good tooling radically improves the developer experience. I want to thank Anton again for being so gracious with his time, and giving us all sorts of goodies to think on. As always, thanks so much for listening and for your support. I'm your host Chris, and now let's dive in.

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Welcome back to another episode of Tooling Talks! I'm your host Chris and we have yet another great episode for you this month. In fact, it's so great, that it will actually be two parts. For this first episode with Anton we got to chat about all things cross building, the various platforms you can run your Scala code on, and also about the work it takes to not only maintain projects with multiple Scala versions, but also for those various platforms. Anton has been an absolute joy to interact with online, he's helpful, he works on all sorts of open source projects, and he's another Neovim user, which might just be his best trait yet. So without further ado, let's dive in. Thanks for joining.

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Welcome back to another episode of Tooling Talks! I'm your host Chris and I'm excited to share another episode with you this month. Firstly, I wanted to give a heartfelt thanks to everyone out there for your support. Whether its been through GitHub sponsors, Twitter messages, or just listens, seeing the interest around the podcast has been super encouraging. You're all the best. This month I was able to sit down with Olivier Mélois and have a fantastic conversation about Smithy and the surrounding ecosystem. We also talked about horses, build tools, editor integrations, and testing frameworks. There was no shortage of things to talk about with Oliver. So without further ado, let's dive in. Thanks for joining.

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Welcome back to another episode of Tooling Talks. I'm your host Chris and this month I was able to have an episode fully focused on something I've been wanting to cover for a while, the beginner experience in Scala Tooling. I'm incredibly grateful that Amina Adewusi was willing to take some time and dive into the topic with me. You may know Amina from the conference she created, Scalabase, which is a conference focused on newcomers to Scala, or maybe her course Learning Scala on LinkedIn, which is a short course focused on giving newcomers to Scala a great introduction. She had a ton of insight about the beginner experience, getting starting contributing to open source, and diversifying the ecosystem. It was a pleasure to have her, so without further ado, let's dive in.Thanks for joining.

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Welcome back to another episode of Tooling Talks. I'm your host Chris and this month I'm excited to sit down with another Neovimmer, Gabriel Volpe. You may know him from his books "Practical FP in Scala" or "Functional Event-Driven Architecture", his work maintaining multiple open source libraries, or maybe some of his talks online.  We talked all about editor choice, using Nix, and even a bit about the Scala Open Source community. I really enjoyed chatting with Gabriel and I'm exciting to see the future of what Nix and Scala together could look like. Without further ado, let's dive in. Thanks for joining.

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