This article describes a simple Scala design pattern that allows library designers to provide services that their clients can access either through mixins or imports. Giving users a choice between mixin composition and importing makes a library easier to use.

In this final installment of a four part interview, Scala's designer Martin Odersky talks with Bill Venners and Frank Sommers about the mechanics and purpose of pattern matching in Scala.

Martin Odersky talks with Bill Venners and Frank Sommers about the design motivations behind Scala's type system.

Martin Odersky talks with Bill Venners and Frank Sommers about the compromises and most important goals in Scala's design, its object-oriented innovations, and what's in it for you.

Martin Odersky talks with Bill Venners about the history that led to the creation of the Scala programming language.

Learning a new programming language sometimes influences how you code in other languages, too. In this essay, Bill Venners shares how learning Scala influenced his programming style.

In this interview, three Twitter developers, Steve Jenson, Alex Payne, and Robey Pointer, talk with Bill Venners about their use of Scala in production at Twitter.

In this article, which is based on Chapter 1 of the book, Programming in Scala, you'll get an overview of the Scala language and insights into its design.

In this article, you'll follow twelve steps that are designed to help you understand and gain some basic skills in the Scala programming language.