Lambdapod introduction

Overview

This is our first episode! in it we cover:

• Introduction and why Lambda pod has a right to exist.

• Whats kept us busy: Yardena talked about her first Groovy experience and using Easyb, Ronen mentioned Gelfino and the s-exp to l-exp compiler.

• Interview with Iulian Dragos of Typesafe about Scala, it IDE support and the community in general.

• Our impressions of the Edge Java conference, meeting Tim Berglund and Ronen's work on Liquibase Dsl and Gradle plugin, Yardena impression of time travel debugger and meeting Iulian.

• datomic is out, uses datalog as query language, has a unique approach to data persistency and caching.

• Scala macros controversy and Odersky’s response

• Golang first version out, the next sayeret talk will be on Golang, Dart will follow.