“I’m going to attend this conference, is anyone else coming?” texted my friend Sandro in our group chat.
“What’s it called?” I replied.
“Software You Can Love.”
“Sold! How could I miss it?”
Scala Italy 2023 – Scala Blues
It was 2015 when I attended my first Scala Italy conference. I was freshly landed in the functional programming magic world and I was tasked by my boss to asses whether Scala was a technology with a future or just a fade. I sat there, as proved by the picture used over the years as a background for the conference website, and enjoyed the show.
The conference was well organized, with a bunch of sponsors and some hundred people attending. My report, reinforced by attending Scala Days 2016 in Berlin, was that Scala was viable with quite a strong interest and support from the industry.
Over the years the conference grew, I missed the Venice edition in 2016, but I was in Rome in 2017, Florence in 2018, and eventually Bologna in 2019. Both Florence and Bologna were two-day events.
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Lambda World 2019
Lambda World 2019 Blog Post
The Spanish town of Cadiz lies outward in the ocean, circled by ancient walls, protected by two castles. Grids of alleys, old houses facing at a short distance across narrow streets, narrow balconies enclosed in windowed structures. Warm, light brown rocks and stone. Old, ancient, historical and yet so filled with sun and sparkling energy.
It is just a heck of a journey to get there to attend the best functional programming conference in the world. You start from your ordinary small northern Italy town, get by car to the nearest airport, fly first to Barcellona, hoping that the turmoils for the recent sentence on the separatist leaders cause no problem with your flight exchange. Wait for a while at the airport terminal, eating a sandwich, then you board on another plane that will carry you to Jerez de la Frontera. There you are up to a ride on the train. Eventually, you reach Cadiz, but you still need to walk to your hotel in the historic downtown. “Walk” because at Cadiz core everything is at a walking distance and most of the streets are impractical to any car.
This is my third year in a row that I manage to get my employer to sponsor my attendance at Lambda World Cadiz. I like this conference, I like the eclectic view of the functional-programming-verse that provides and last, but not least, I like the setting.
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In Italy, June is usually that period of the year when the weather becomes hot and the Italian C++ conference is held in Milan.
That’s why (the conference, not the weather) on Saturday 15th June, my friend and coworker Francesco and I went to the Milan Polytechnic. As for the other conferences I attended, I wrote quite a large volume of notes. Regretfully, as it happened for the other conferences, reorganizing my notes to make some sense of them and present them in an understandable and useful way is out of reach for my homeopathic level of free time. Also, usually you can find online the slides and videos of the talks well before my post. Therefore I decided for the short format I already used a couple of times in the past – a brief overview describing the conference for what you can’t see in the video e a brief summary of the talks I attended to.
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