ADTs in Scala (Part 2: ADTs vs OO-Classes)

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : November 7, 2023
Categories : Scala
Tags : Adt ,Fp

In my latest post I presented ADTs in Scala 3. I also created a Youtube video about it (check it out here). Since the content was longer, I split it in three parts. This is the second part.

We look at the differences between classes and ADTs. We discuss:

Immutability
Inheritance
Public and private fields
Methods
Pattern matching

This video is an introduction to ADTs in Scala for object-oriented developers. We look at the differences and show examples of how to change values in ADTs, how methods work and pattern matching.

To run the code yourself in Scastie go to https://scastie.scala-lang.org.