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Professional Scala

By : Mads Hartmann, Ruslan Shevchenko
Book Image

Professional Scala

By: Mads Hartmann, Ruslan Shevchenko

Overview of this book

This book teaches you how to build and contribute to Scala programs, recognizing common patterns and techniques used with the language. You’ll learn how to write concise, functional code with Scala. After an introduction to core concepts, syntax, and writing example applications with scalac, you’ll learn about the Scala Collections API and how the language handles type safety via static types out-of-the-box. You’ll then learn about advanced functional programming patterns, and how you can write your own Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). By the end of the book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to successfully build smart, efficient applications in Scala that can be compiled to the JVM.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we covered how Scala makes it possible to write powerful Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) by providing a few interesting language features. We had a brief look at what DSLs are in general terms. We have also covered a DSL that you'll very likely be using if you're going to work with Scala professionally. Finally, we have implemented our own DSL.

We now come to the end of this book. In this book, we covered all the professional concepts of the Scala language, from setting up the development environment to writing your own custom DSLs. We covered the object-oriented and functional programming aspects of the Scala language. We also covered some useful libraries that are used in Scala, such as Cats and Doobie. Finally, we covered the additional resources and tools that will help you to stay up to date in the industry.