Dylan's Hobby Programming Blog
In retrospective: I used scala’s call-by-name functionality to simplify some imperative-style OpenGL code, and used scala’s awesome type system to build some highly-composable building blocks for Vertex data classes.
Event handling has turned over a new leaf. Instead of “subscribing” to “publishers”, you create a “stream” of events. When the event stream is implemented like a collection, it becomes a powerful abstraction that lets you create complicated event handling logic with relatively little effort.
Scala’s Futures bring a functional approach to asynchronous programming and let you escape callback hell!