This week in #Scala (Feb 3, 2025)
Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!
2 min readFeb 2, 2025
This blog keeps you updated with the latest Scala and Reactive programming news.
You can now subscribe and get the newest edition directly into your inbox. Also please note, that I am gradually migrating this into Substack.
New Content
- Next Scala 3 LTS series will increase minimum required JDK version
- Google Summer of Code 2025: Call for Scala projects
- Recap of Advent of Code 2024
- Running Cask with Virtual Threads
- Zio Schema vs Rust Serde
- FastScala web framework update: new components & website
- Scala Macros and Metaprogramming course from Rock the JVM
- yantl: a newtype library that cares about error localization
- otel4s-doobie, an integration between Otel4s and Doobie based off natchez-extras
- ZIO Apache Arrow
Events
- CFP for Lambda Days, June 12th-13th 2025, Krakow, Poland
- Functional Scala 2024 [Online]
- Scalar 2025 Early Birds!
- [Scala meetups] Functional World | ScaLatin
Releases
- Scala 2.13.16 is here!
- Scala 3.6.3 is out!
- Mill 0.12.6 is out: native executables, BOM support, gradle migration support, and more!
- Scala CLI v1.6.1 has been released
- dotty-cps-async 1.0.0 is out
- Chimney 1.7.0 — with transformations from multiple values and recursive Patchers
- scala-nimbus-jose-jwt 2.3.0 is out
- chimney 1.7.0 available
Learning Materials
- Online Courses (MOOCs) from The Scala Center
- Functional Programming in Scala JetBrains course
- Scala 3 Metaprogramming Learning Resources
- 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)
