This week in #Scala (Oct 12, 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

• Type Lambdas in Scala 3
• Countdown to Scala 3 by Martin Odersky
• Scala 3: Enums
• Need Help Learning Scala? Join the Developers Guild!
• A short guide to Blocker
• Let’s build a Scala mock library
• 5 tips for writing great client SDK libraries
• Annoying things in Scala 2 that’ll be (mostly) gone in Scala 3
• Attending a hackathon with Scala and Akka (Streams) on Microsoft Azure
• Getting Started with Knative in Scala
• Using Aspects To Transform Your Code With ZIO Environment
• Rob Norris: Telescopes and Types — The Scala Logs
• Things you need to know about JVM with Mateusz Kubuszok — Scala Love
• Tagless Final — Part 14 — wait, don’t fold (The Big Rewrite)
• Functional Scala CFP
• Scale By the Bay, November 12th — 14th, online event

Releases

• sbt 1.4.0 released
• Cats Effect 3.0.0-M1 is out
• Akka 2.6.10 is out. Great improvements of rolling updates and rebalance in Cluster Sharding
• Release SwayDB v0.16.1 with improved sequential write performance

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