At Scalar 2026 I gave a talk about something near and dear to my heart – interop between Scala and C.
The talk is inspired by my work on sn-bindgen, which aims to be a one stop solution for generating bindings to C libraries allowing them to be used from Scala 3 Native.
The importance of C itself does not need to be introduced in too many words, but it's particularly important for bootstrapping the Scala Native ecosystem and plugging the library gaps that historically existed in Scala due to reliance on JDK and its libraries.