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November 19th, 2024, ISSUE 557

READING

What is Functional Programming?


Adam Warski (@adamwarski)
Announcing Akka 3


Jonas Bonér (@jboner)
Idiomatic dependency injection for ZIO applications in Scala


Pierre Ricadat (@ghostdogpr)
ZIO in 2025


Ziverge (@zivergetech)
Upcoming Changes to Givens in Scala 3.7


Oliver Bračevac (@etaconversion)
Announcing the Business4s Mentorship Program


Voytek Pituła (@Krever01)
Migrating Spark codebases from Scala 2.12 to 2.13

With Apache Spark 4.0 coming soon and preview releases available for a few months, you might want to anticipate the migration to Scala 2.13 and avoid dealing with both Scala and Spark upgrades at the same time.
Henry

EVENTS

Scalar 2025 extends call for papers!

The deadline is 31st October, but we'll be doing a first round of reviews & accepting the first batch of presentations after the 13th.
Scalar Conference (@scalarconf)
Functional Scala CFP, Dec 5th, online event

Functional Scala opens its conference to a worldwide audience in 2024, with attendees all over the world being able to attend online.
Ziverge (@zivergetech)
10% discount for Scala Times readers for Functional Scala conference!

Use our exclusive promo code ScalaTimesFS2024!
Ziverge (@zivergetech)

VIDEOS

From Scala to Silicon: The Chisel Journey with Jack Koenig


Jack Koenig
What The com-lihaoyi Platform Needs from Scala


Li Haoyi (@li_haoyi)
How 1 Software Engineer Outperforms 138 - Lichess Case Study


Tom Delalande (@tomdelalande_)

RELEASES

s3te


felher
Kyo 0.14.0
IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2024.3 Is Out!


Maciej Gorywoda (@makingthematrix)
scala-cli 1.5.3


VirtusLab (@VirtusLab)
stitch

a Scala library for elegantly and efficiently composing RPC calls to services.
X
cats-actors

Cats Actors framework for building apps which are reactive. Cats actors uses a conceptual actor model as a higher level abstraction for concurrency.

VARIA

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