This week in #Scala (Aug 3, 2020)

Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!

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

It has been a week since the previous #ThisWeekInScala so lets catch-up on the latest Scala & Reactive happenings…

New Content

• “First Class” Types in Scala 3
• The Difference Between Null, Nothing, Nil, None and Unit in Scala
• Announcement — Indigo 0.2.0 is out for your FP game building needs
• Check out zio-json, Superfast JSON for Scala
• And trace4cats, Yet another distributed tracing system, this time just for Scala
• Tagless Final — Part 4.2 — Why The F[_]
• Tagless Final — Part 5 — core (The Big Rewrite — Part 1)
• What is an Effect?
• Writing Angular Services in Scala

Releases

• Announcing Dotty 0.26.0-RC1 — unified extension methods and more
• The release of Lagom Framework 1.6.3 is now available. This is a stepping stone towards Lagom 1.6.4 which will introduce the new SBR OSS into Lagom by default
• scodec-bits 1.1.18 released, cross built for Scala 2.11, 2.12, 2.13 x Scala.js 0.6, 1.1, and Dotty 0.26.0-RC1. Full binary compatibility on the Scala 2 releases
• IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2020.2 — Implicit auto-imports, Indentation-based braces, First-class companions, Auto-import for object members, In-editor Scaladoc rendering, Completion improvements

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