This week in #Scala (Apr 17, 2023)

Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!

This blog aims to keep you updated with the latest news from the world of Scala and Reactive programming.

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New Content

• Scala Tooling Summit Recap
• Top 10 pattern matching tips in Scala
• Underrated Scala Features and Hidden Gems in the Standard Library
• New Scala Build Tool
• Immutability by Example — Building a Purely Functional Data Validator
• Functional Error Handling in Scala
• Programming in Scala: Carbon Footprint
• MUnit + Expecty
• ZIO SQL: Type-safe SQL for ZIO applications
• FiberRefs, ZIO 2 & Patch Theory
• ZIO From Scratch (Concurrency Primitives)
• Understanding FP: Overcoming Intuition and Ease Hurdles (loops vs. recursion)

Events

• LambdaConf returns Sept 16–19th and is better than ever! (Call For Proposals and Call for Volunteers)
• ZIO World 2023 (Lisbon, April 21st) (+ Call For Proposals)
• ScalaDays tickets are on sale!
• Functional Scala 2023 (London, Nov 30) (Code: ThisWeekInScala10OFF)
• CFP: ScalaMatsuri (Online event, April 15th-16th 2023)
• NEScala 2023 Call to Action
• ZIO Hackathon, Scotland (in-person and online)
• ZIO Hackathon, Colorado, USA (in-person & online)

Releases

• Iron v2.1.0 is out!
• zio-redis 0.2.0 released
• Tyrian 0.6.2 released
• zio-dynamodb 0.2.9 released
• Spark-NLP 4.4.0: New BART for Text Translation & Summarization, new ConvNeXT Transformer for Image Classification, new Zero-Shot Text Classification by BERT, more than 4000+ state-of-the-art models, and many more!

Learning Materials

• Join me on Medium
• Get Programming with Scala by Daniela Sfregola (30% off)
• Play for Scala (30% off)