This week in #Scala (Jan 6, 2025)
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New Content
- Scala 2 maintenance plans
- Cats MonadError + SIP-64 Context Bound
- Scala Space in 2025
- Gems in the Scala Ecosystem
- Minimal type-driven dependency injection with effect systems
- Rust vs Scala: Facts and Hype
- Faster CI with Selective Testing
- Technical Note: Using Circe with java.net.http
- The IntelliJ Scala Plugin in 2024
- Announcing Connect-RPC-Scala library — expose HTTP-REST (JSON) APIs derived from GRPC services
- zio-mongodb — One more ZIO wrapper around the official MongoDB Java driver but better ;)
- Scala.js Project Template with Tyrian and Flowbite
- How Java’s Executable Assembly Jars Work
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!
Releases
- Version 0.5.0 of the Scala Raise4s library
- cats-effect v3.6.0-RC1 pre-release
- Openapi4s first release
- Chimney 1.6.0 is out
- ZIO 2.1.14 released
- ifdef 0.4.0 released
- ducktape 0.2.7 has been released
- Helenus 1.8.1 is out
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)
