Overview
This is our first episode! in it we cover:
- Introduction and why Lambda pod has a right to exist.
- Whats kept us busy: Yardena talked about her first Groovy experience and using Easyb, Ronen mentioned Gelfino and the s-exp to l-exp compiler.
- Interview with Iulian Dragos of Typesafe about Scala, it IDE support and the community in general.
- Our impressions of the Edge Java conference, meeting Tim Berglund and Ronen's work on Liquibase Dsl and Gradle plugin, Yardena impression of time travel debugger and meeting Iulian.
- datomic is out, uses datalog as query language, has a unique approach to data persistency and caching.
- Scala macros controversy and Odersky’s response
- Golang first version out, the next sayeret talk will be on Golang, Dart will follow.