This week in #Scala (Sep 19, 2022)

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New Content

• Why is Lightbend Changing the License for Akka
• Apache Flink: Regarding Akka’s licensing change
• The Typelevel stack and Scala Native
• Building a simple programming language in Scala from scratch
• Manage library breaking changes with Scalafix
• Reconciling Spark APIs for Scala
• Scripting with Scala
• SBT tutorial, part 1 — essentials, adding libraries, running tests, all from scratch in the SBT console
• Ep 17: The Magic of LazyLists
• ZIO Streams, Part 3: A Bigger Example
• Functional event sourcing with cats-effect
• Real-world functional programming in Scala using ZIO
• Containers Redux — Capturing Type Class information for myriad types
• Test with Scala check properties
• Scala.js AWS Lambda, using Scala 3
• Check out shardcake, an open source library that makes it easy to distribute entities across multiple servers and interact with those entities using their ID without knowing their actual location
• Custom JIT compilation with Runtime Multi-Stage Programming
• Migrating from Akka to ZIO Panel Discussion
• ZIO Hackathon, October 27th-28th, New York, USA & Online
• ScalaCon 2022 CFP, October 4th-5th, virtual event
• Functional Scala Conference — December 1–2nd 2022, London (in person and online) and a discount for this week in Scala 10% off
• Scala Ukraine Meet-up September 30

Releases

• Scala 2.12.17 is here
• dotty-cps-async 0.9.11 is out. (bugfixes and experimental loom support)
• nyaya 1.1.0 available

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