Those following my blog posts know that I like to take Scala everywhere. This time, let us write Angular services in Scala. If you don’t know Angular, it’s a frontend web framework developed by Google in TypeScript, similar to React or Vue. It is a component based framework, and to…

Introduction If you are a Python developer, perhaps you ever felt the need to step up your Django application, or your data pipeline, to the next level, towards a technology which allows to build larger, safer and more robust softwares. It turns out that Scala is an excellent fit to these…

Recently we stumbled on a problem that at first glance looks particularly simple: overload a method for a `List[String]` and a `List[Int]`. One could expect that simply writing def foo(ls: List[String]): Unit = ??? def foo(ls: List[Int]): Unit = ??? would do the trick, the same way as we would…

Google Spreadsheets (and softwares alike such as Excel) are a great way to visualise and organise (medium-sized) data. Google spreadsheets are also easily connectible to a whole lot of Google services such as Google analytics. Hence, they are the perfect entry point for your data. …

Scala is hard. Scala has a steep learning curve. That’s the kind of things that you can read, or that you may think. I strongly disagree. Granted, there are things that are complicated in Scala. …