SPLASH 2019 (series) / OOPSLA /
Scala Implicits Are Everywhere: A Large-Scale Study of the Use of Scala Implicits in the Wild
The Scala programming language offers two distinctive language features implicit parameters and implicit conversions, often referred together as implicits. Announced without fanfare in 2004, implicits have quickly grown to become a widely and pervasively used feature of the language. They provide a way to reduce the boilerplate code in Scala programs. They are also used to implement certain language features without having to modify the compiler. We report on a large-scale study of the use of implicits in the wild. For this, we analyzed 7,280 Scala projects hosted on GitHub, spanning over 8.1M call sites involving implicits and 370.7K implicit declarations across 18.7M lines of Scala code.
Thu 24 OctDisplayed time zone: Beirut change
Thu 24 Oct
Displayed time zone: Beirut change
11:00 - 12:30 | |||
11:00 22mTalk | DeepSEA: A Language for Certified System Software OOPSLA Vilhelm Sjöberg Yale University, Yuyang Sang Yale University, Shu-chun Weng Yale University, Zhong Shao Yale University DOI Pre-print | ||
11:22 22mTalk | Weakening WebAssembly OOPSLA Conrad Watt University of Cambridge, Andreas Rossberg Dfinity Stiftung, Jean Pichon-Pharabod University of Cambridge DOI | ||
11:45 22mTalk | Safer Smart Contract Programming with Scilla OOPSLA Ilya Sergey Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore, Vaivaswatha Nagaraj Zilliqa Research, Jacob Johannsen Zilliqa Research, Amrit Kumar Zilliqa Research, Anton Trunov Zilliqa Research, Ken Chan Zilliqa Research DOI Pre-print File Attached | ||
12:07 22mTalk | Scala Implicits Are Everywhere: A Large-Scale Study of the Use of Scala Implicits in the Wild OOPSLA Filip Křikava Czech Technical University, Heather Miller Carnegie Mellon University, Jan Vitek Northeastern University DOI Pre-print |