In this talk, I will introduce the highlights of what to look forward to in Scala 3.9 LTS, as well as how to think about the upcoming new release.

The new Scala 3.9 LTS is planned to arrive in Q2 2026. With it, a wave of significant changes will soon flood the Scala ecosystem. Numerous language features, a new runner, a revamped REPL, bumped JDK, the list runs long.
In this talk, I will introduce the highlights of what to look forward to in Scala 3.9 LTS, as well as how to think about the upcoming new release. I will summarise the changes since 3.3 LTS, unpacking some of the development history. I will also talk about 3.3 LTS ongoing support, JDK compatibility and other things you might wonder about, thinking about Scala going forward.
In this talk, I will present insights from running the Open Community Build, where we continuously build and migrate nearly 2,000 open-source projects to the newest Scala Next versions, from scratch, every week.
Protobuf is commonly associated with code generation. However, in large projects with tens of thousands of message definitions, this approach can lead to an overwhelming amount of generated code. In this talk, I’ll share my journey in search of a different approach to this problem.
I would like to present the use of NamedTuples to implement some cool things in SQL Libraries
Scala Fibers, Java Virtual Threads, and Kotlin Coroutines - this talk shows how this elegant solution manifests at three different abstraction levels.