This talk aims to equip the audience with the minimum required bagage to get comfortable working with contravariance.

Contravariance can throw many developers off the first time they run into it. This talk aims to equip the audience with the minimum required bagage to get comfortable working with contravariance. We'll begin by building up intuition for what it means for a type parameter to be in contraviariant position, before moving on to concrete examples.
In this talk, we will demonstrate some elegant applications of functional programming in Scala, with even more elegant visual results - all with live code and real-time output.
In this talk, I will show how you can use ScalaPy to leverage an excellent NLP library like Spacy, minimizing your discomfort of using Python, and enhancing your comfort with Scala 3 for the remaining parts of your application.
Drawing on 25 years of experience as a professional musician and record producer, this will be a beginner focused talk introducing the use of Scala.js and the web audio api for building Scala powered Web Audio Applications.
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