This week in #Scala (Apr 8, 2024)
Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!
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New Content
- Announcing the Scala Ambassadors initiative
- Scams in the Scala community: update
- SIP-61 — Unroll Default Arguments for Binary Compatibility
- Capture Checking in Scala 3.4
- Generative Art in Scala, No AI Required
- Benchmarking Tapir: Part 3 (Loom)
- sbt 2.x remote cache with Bazel compatibility
- Supporting high-performance response streaming in Shardcake
- Iris is a Linux themeing manager that facilitates Linux OS customization, allowing a consistent look and feel of your desktop, without the hassle and experience usually needed just to change how things look
- Utility for moving/backing up WSL distros
Events
- Scalendar April 2024
- Scala Meetup in Stockholm (April 25)
- ScalaMatsuri 2024 is coming
- LambdaConf May 4–10 2024 (Call For Proposals and Call for Volunteers)
- ZIO Hackathon, Colorado, USA (in-person & online)
- Learn Scala 3 Metaprogramming with John A. De Goes 10% OFF for This Week In Scala Readers)
Releases
- dotty-cps-async 0.9.21 is out
- [redacted][0.4.0] released
- IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2024.1 Is Out!
- Scala.php 0.1.1 released! :)
Learning Materials
- Online Courses (MOOCs) from The Scala Center
- The Functional Programming in Scala Course Is Out!
- Functional Declarative Design: A Comprehensive Methodology for Statically-Typed Functional Programming Languages
- Get Programming with Scala by Daniela Sfregola (30% off)
- Play for Scala (30% off)
- Grokking Functional Programming (30% off)
- Functional Programming for Mortals (pay as much as you want)
- Essential Effects by Adam Rosien (20% off)
- Programming in Scala, Fifth Edition
- Functional Event-Driven Architecture: Powered by Scala 3 is now 100% complete
- Zionomicon (code is thisweekinscala)
- Supercharge Scala Future | FP-Tower (50% off)
