This week in #Scala (Sep 4, 2023)

Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!

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New Content

• Lightbend transfers ownership of sbt to the Scala Center
• Contribution Equals Impact
• RFC: A Path Forward for Ammonite REPL and Scripts in 2023 and Beyond
• The Making of the com.lihaoyi Ecosystem
• Cost of boxing
• Compare Task Processing Approaches in Scala
• Type safety with Iron — introduction and comparison to Refined
• Native app development with sttp and Scala Toolkit
• How to implement generic FlatMap in Free Monad?
• Slack Bot in Scala and 12 Ways to Run It
• Supervision, Kafka and Java 21: what’s new in Ox
• Diving into ZIO Test ‘Aspects’
• Do your Values align with FP Values?
• Cellular Automata for video games
• cjmx, a command line JMX client intended to be used when graphical tools (e.g., JConsole, VisualVM) are unavailable
• sbt-svelte integrates Webpack + Svelte into Playframework’s asset generation

Events

• Scala Days Madrid, Sept 11th-12th
• LambdaConf returns Sept 16–19th and is better than ever! (Call For Proposals and Call for Volunteers)
• Functional Scala 2023 (London, Nov 30) (Code: ThisWeekInScala10OFF) (+ Call For Proposals)
• NEScala 2023 Call to Action
• ZIO Hackathon, Scotland (in-person and online)
• ZIO Hackathon, Colorado, USA (in-person & online)
• Performance Optimization on the JVM by John A. De Goes (10% OFF for This Week In Scala Readers)
• LambdaConf 2024, May 4th-10th, Estes Park, Colorado
• Learn Scala 3 Metaprogramming with John A. De Goes 10% OFF for This Week In Scala Readers)

Releases

• zio-temporal 0.3.0 available
• sbt 1.9.4 released