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September 28th, 2023, ISSUE 500

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IntelliJScala @ Scala Days 2023 Madrid

Our main takeaway from the Scala Days conference was the importance of user feedback.
JetBrains (@jetbrains)
OOP classes vs Higher-order Functions (HOFs)

On what to choose … it doesn’t matter.
Alexandru Nedelcu (@alexelcu)
Work-in-Progress Scala 3 Specification

Until now, Scala 3 did not have any precise specification. It was only described as a number of changes compared to the Scala 2.13 specification.
Scala Center (@scala_lang)

EVENTS

10% discount for Learn Scala 3 Metaprogramming with John A. De Goes, Oct 23rd - 27th

In this course, developers will obtain a systematic and incremental introduction to building their own macros using Scala 3 metaprogramming. Covering trees and expressions, inlines and givens, quoting and splicing, and deriving, developers coming out of this course will be able to implement their own Scala 3 macros with confidence. Use our link for a 10% discount for Scala Times readers!
John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)
10% discount for Functional Scala, Nov 30th - Dec 1st, London

Use code ScalaTimesFS2023 and get our exclusive discount!
Ziverge (@zivergetech)
LambdaConf 2024, May 4th-10th, Estes Park, Colorado

Get ready!
LambdaConf (@lambda_conf)

RELEASES

Besom

Besom is Pulumi SDK for Scala 3 - an infrastructure-as-code platform that allows you to define any cloud resources your project needs.
VirtusLab (@VirtusLab)
Scala.js 1.14.0

This release mainly brings speed improvements in the reachability analysis by parallelizing it. It also upgrades the Scala 2.13.x standard library to version 2.13.12.
Scala.js contributors (@scala_js)
zio-quill 4.7.9

Several breaking changes, removing the support of several things (NDBC, Finagle, Lagom, ScalaJS) and renaming a package in the `jasync` modules.
zio-quill contributors
zio-protoquill 4.7.0

ProtoQuill is the Scala 3 version of Quill. This version brings no breaking changes. Several improvements, dependency updates, etc.
zio-protoquill contributors
zio-path

zio-path is a simple library for working with files and folders in ZIO.
Kári Magnússon (@KMagnsson)

VARIA

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