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A brief history of Scala
Talk
12. October 2026, 11:20 - 11:50
Kesselhaus
What can one tiny function teach you about twenty years of Scala? We rewrite isPalindrome version by version and let the code tell the story. Watch it grow from classic Scala 2 into the modern Scala 3; tail recursion, type classes, extension methods, all earning their place. A palindrome reads the same both ways, Scala's history does not.