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July 22nd, 2025, ISSUE 592

EVENTS

LLM4s Dev Hour – Sundays @ 9am London Time

Just finished another great hour of mob programming. We’re now doing this every Sunday — 60 minutes of live coding, debugging, and learning together in public.
LLM4s
Scala Days, Aug 19th - 21st, Lausanne, Switzerland

Leaders from Scala User Groups and global communities, students, and language contributors will gather to discuss academic research, use cases, and visionary projects for a two-day, action-packed event.
Scala Days (@scaladays)
The Scala Workshop, Oct 13th, Singapore

The Scala Workshop is the continuation of the Scala Symposium, providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the design, implementation, and applications of the Scala programming language. Topics include language features, compiler internals, type systems, libraries, tools, and industrial applications.
EPFL
DEVJVM, Oct 25th, Barranquilla, Colombia

A conference uniting Java, Kotlin, and Scala developers.
DEVJVM

VIDEOS

Scala Macros - Episode 8 - Turning a Trait Into an HTTP Server

In this video we will be diving into the world of Symbol and Tree in order to be able to parse an Api representation that represents an HTTP server. In later videos, we will be able to use this Api representation to handle HTTP requests by converting them into HTTP responses.
Kalin Does Code

RELEASES

Kyo 1.0-RC1

We're excited to announce that Kyo is finally entering a period of API stabilization!
Kyo Contributors
ox 1.0.0-RC1

Please help us with testing & feedback - what is missing? what is broken? what would be good to fix before 1.0-final? Thanks!
ox contributors
scala-cli 1.8.4

(experimental) publish support for the Sonatype Central Portal, better support for the REPL with JDK 24+, and a bunch of bugfixes.
scala-cli contributors
mill 1.0.1

A bugfix release for the recently published v1.0.0.
mill contributors
layoutz

Simple, beautiful CLI output.
Matthieu Court
fishy-scala-quill-jsonb-example

Scala 3 + ZIO + Quill + PostgreSQL JSONB example with Dr. Seuss inspired fish data. Getting PostgreSQL JSONB to work with Quill 4.x and Scala 3 took me way too long to figure out. I wish there were more simple guides/resources out there in the Scala world, so I made one!
Nestor10
pencil-mail

Fork of Pencil, a SMTP client with added AWS SES support, various fixes, improved tests, various enhancements, and removal of the Apache Tika dependency.
Roman Belikin (@romanbelikin)

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