Re: Scala projects

Hi Kevin,

You should contact mentors of the projects you liked directly to discuss 
the details.

If you're interested in doing some dotty-related work you can also contact 
/cc Dimitry for extra ideas around the project.

Cheers,
Denys

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 5:06:45 AM UTC+1, Kevin Avignon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My name is Kevin Avignon and I'm a senior software engineering student in 
> Canada. In college, most of our courses are given using Java. As an intern 
> in my three different internships, I was exposed to C#, XAML and F# as 
> other languages. Looking at the projects in Scala, I am very interested 
> because Scala is to Java what F# is to C# and I love what I'm seeing from 
> F#. At the moment, I am interested by the 4, yes 4 !, following projects : 
>
>
>
>    1. Fast Parser
>    2. CoRoutines
>    3. Support for Dotty
>    4. Scala Build tool
>
> For someone with some knowledge of functional programming with another 
> language, I was wondering if it mattered? The problem with FP is not the 
> language by itself, but more getting around the FP paradigm. That was what 
> I shown during a tech conference in a user group. Right now, I am very 
> interested in learning Scala but I would like to know which projects 
> mentors would like me to focus more on knowing that, yes I know the FP 
> paradigm and a FP language, but it's not Scala. I'd like to add that I'm 
> very fast to learn new tech and I'd love to be of use during the summer!
>
> Thanks!
>

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