Building the Social Web with Scala and Scala-JS

Hi all,

 I gave a talk at Scala eXchange this week on the theme 
that is the title of this post. It packs in pretty much
all my talks in the past few years on WebID, Web Authentication,
LDP, with an emphasis on the advantages of banana-rdf for
unifying the well known rdf libs such as Jena and Sesame, and 
how we are moving to do the same  with various Javascript rdf 
libraries. ( which is work  that is in progress but advancing nicely )

You should be able to see it here, after creating an 
account with  skillsmatter and logging in.

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5960-building-a-secure-distributed-social-web-using-scala-scala-js

Hope that helps show how Scala-JS - which is gaining a lot of
momentum, and which should gain more as it comes to be able to 
produce code that is faster than hand written JS - ties in
with JavaScript. There is some really interesting work to do
here by JS specialists in helping us build apis that work nicely
for JS coders. This is what the best Scala libraries such as 
http://akka.io/ and https://playframework.com do with Java. The core
of these libs is written in Scala, but they work hard to
have good java interfaces for people who need to work in that
environment.

I think we are here reaching a great turning point where we can
have the whole java* ecosystem come together again,

All the best,

	Henry Story

Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/

Received on Thursday, 11 December 2014 23:07:41 UTC