Viktor Klang needs no introduction. Deputy CTO at Lightbend, Viktor is a public speaker and programmer‚ specializing in distributed systems and concurrency. He is a prolific contributor to, and Emeritus Tech Lead of, the Akka project; co-founding member of the Reactive Streams Special Interest Group; a contributor to the Scala Standard Library APIs, such as Future & Promise; and a Java Champion.
At Scala Days Lausanne, Viktor will talk about Scala 2.13 and the implementation of Future & Promise. You will learn what a Future and a Promise is and what has driven the implementation to evolve into what it is today. In advance of his talk Making Our Future Better, we sat down with Viktor to talk about his Scala journey, the biggest challenge Scala developers are facing today and why empathy is the solution to the challenge.