This week in #Scala (Sep 28, 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

• Dotty becomes Scala 3
• Algebra and Parametricity
• 4 Ways to Make Change in Scala
• How to Deploy a Scala Application to AWS Lambda
• Counting words in Scala, part 1
• Can we build better?
• 5 lessons learned from my continuing awesome journey with ZIO
• Apache Kafka and ZIO
• The Parallel typeclass in Cats — Scala tutorial
• Tagless Final — Part 12 — delivery-http-http4s (The Big Rewrite)
• Survey on quality of machine translation of Ada code to Scala
• zio-json, the goal of this project is to create the best all-round JSON library for Scala
• rezilience is a ZIO-native collection of policies for making asynchronous systems more resilient to failures.
• Akka HTTP loves JSON: 3 Libraries You Can Integrate into Akka HTTP
• Scala 3: New Types
• Scala 3: Enums
• Microsoft Releases Speech to Text, Cybersecurity, and Interpretable GBTs in Scala
• Most Popular Programming Languages on GitHub — 2011/2019
• Programming in Scala for beginners at university level — week 1
• Hands-on Scala With Li Haoyi. If you like his book, try code `paperback-launch`

Releases

• Metals v0.9.4 is out with new analyze stacktrace functionality, customizable package exclusions, and quick-worksheet creation!
• Tofu 0.8.0 is released with new abstractions for streams, blocking, and more
• sbt 1.4.0-RC2 released
• Akka Projections 1.0.0 is out
• caliban 0.9.2 available

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