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July 19th, 2018, ISSUE 231
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READING

Can someone explain to me the benefits of IO?

This is a serious question. And there are definitely serious and interesting answers.
arbitrarycivilian
Implicits, type classes, and extension methods, part 3: conversions and implicit-based patterns

Is there any use case for implicit conversions? A reason why they were not removed completely?
Mateusz Kubuszok (@MateuszKubuszok)
Shared State in Functional Programming

Newcomers to functional programming (FP) are often very confused about the proper way to share state without breaking purity and end up having a mix of pure and impure code that defeats the purpose of having pure FP code in the first place.
Gabriel Volpe (@volpegabriel87)
Demystifying Dependency Injection with Airframe

Airframe is a library of lightweight building blocks for Scala, which simplifies these programming concerns, and helps us to reduce the number of things to consider when building applications.
Taro L. Saito (@taroleo)
Scala Wars: FP-OOP vs FP

FP follow-up to the discussion on "why IO", from the perspective of ZIO author
John de Goes (@jdegoes)
Why Scala?

Why would you consider using Scala? What are the technical and business reasons to use the language?
Adam Warski (@adamwarski)

PRESENTATIONS

Scala - Your First Programming Language - Part 23 - Traits vs Packages

In this video we will see how traits can be used as an alternative for packages. We will learn about self types and the differences between them and inheritance and discuss the gotchas surrounding the topic.
DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

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RELEASES

test-state 2.2.0

Test stateful stuff statelessly, and reasonably. This is a huge release - Selenium support, Retry functionality, and a ton of other new features.
David Barri (@japgolly)
Scala Native 0.3.8

This release focuses on compatibility and performance improvements in the library code, keeping backward binary compatibility with previous releases in 0.3.x series.
Scala Native contributors

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