This week in #Scala (Jan 27, 2025)
Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!
2 min readJan 26, 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
- Controversial Pre-SIP: A Syntax for Collection Literals
- Declaring Implicits
- Random Scala Tip #697: Avoid Anonymous Functions as Dependencies
- Above All Event System, a Parent/Absract Event System with Scala
- otel4s-doobie: integration between Otel4s and Doobie
- FastScala web framework update: new components & website
- ZIO Apache Arrow
Events
- Scala meetups & conferences | Scalendar January 2025
- CFP for Lambda Days, June 12th-13th 2025, Krakow, Poland
- Functional Scala 2024 [Online]
- Scalar 2025 Early Birds!
- [MEETUP] London Scala 2025 kickoff events (Jan 29)
Releases
- Scala 2.13.16 is here!
- Scala CLI v1.6.1 has been released
- Metals 1.5.0 has been released!
- raise4s 0.5.0 is out
- Scala.js 1.18.1 released
- Jar Jar Abrams 1.14.1 and sbt-assembly 2.3.1 released
- dotty-cps-async 1.0.0 with commercial support.
- scala-parallel-collections 1.2.0 released
- Pekko 1.1.3 is out
- Virtual thread support in Cask 0.9.6 with large speedups for heavily-blocking applications
- Chimney 1.7.0 — with transformations from multiple values and recursive Patchers
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)
