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Worked in the industry for 15 years or so, with 8 of them in Scala. Open source contributor, blog author, I recently worked outside of Scala space for a few years, which made me appreciate it even more. I use my free time to invest in non-JVM ecosystem surrounding Scala, promoting and contributing to full stack Scala application initiatives.
I also maintain sn-bindgen – a set of tools to ease interop with C libraries through automatic generation of idiomatic bindings, which inspired this talk.
Scala Native can interact with C code and libraries, greatly expanding the library ecosystem beyond pure Scala offerings. Let's see the low level and high level tools that make it possible, talk through challenges of encoding various C concepts in Scala, and demonstrate what popular C libraries look like when used alongside idiomatic Scala code.
Nicolas writes code for JPMorgan, where we use Scala to make some very complicated things seem very simple.
