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July 5th, 2024, ISSUE 539

READING

YAML as a valid Scala 3 code

Yes, it's possible!
Ionut G. Stan
ExecutionContext.parasitic and Friends

There's a lot of confusion around execution contexts and how they work in Scala. The description in Futures and Promises does a good job of explaining the concept of how Futures work, but does not explain what the difference is between ExecutionContext.global, ExecutionContext.parasitic, and ExecutionContext.opportunistic, and where and when you would want to use these.
Will Sargent (@will_sargent)

EVENTS

ScalaBridge London @ SiriusXM!, Jul 18th

The final event of our summer term is hosted by SiriusXM! ScalaBridge London is a community run group for learning and improving at programming. We always run material for new programmers and each term we choose a new topic for more experienced developers. This term that topic is Cats Effects.
ScalaBridge (@ScalaBridge)
Building Better Open Source with John A. De Goes, every Fri until September 2nd, Online event

Want to learn how open source software is made, or maybe get some help improving existing OSS? Then mark your calendars for Friday, the next Zymposium, 12 noon - 1pm Eastern Time.
Scala Portugal
Lambda World. Oct 2nd - 4th, Cadiz, Spain

Don't miss he largest Functional programming event in South Europe!
Lambda World (@lambda_world)

VIDEOS

Faster and less mysterious sbt builds with Develocity

Introduction of the Develocity tool for sbt.
Iulian Dragos (@jaguarul)
Heroes of Ziverge: Jorge Vásquez (Senior Software Engineer at Ziverge)

In this episode, we interview Jorge Vásquez, one of Ziverge's key engineering talents. Dive deep into Jorge's personal story, from his early days in tech to his current role at Ziverge as a Senior Software Engineer. Learn about his unique perspectives on programming and his thoughts on the evolving field of engineering. Jorge shares invaluable insights, career advice, and his predictions for the future of technology. Don't miss this opportunity to gain wisdom from one of the industry's rising stars!
Jorge Vasquez (@jorvasquez2301)
Contribute to Metals like Kasper Kondzielski - Scala with Friends

Watch how Kasper made a contribution to the Scala 3 compiler and the Metals language server! In this episode, we also talk about the various tools/protocols involved in the process, as well as what the next steps in this area could be.
Kasper Kondzielski, Jakub Kozłowski (@kkondzielski)

RELEASES

Tapir 1.10.12

This and v1.10.11 together introduce: A lot of improvements for enums in codegen, new oneOfVariantSingletonMatcher, plus some other fixes and dependency updates.
Tapir contributors
chimney 1.2.0

chimney-java-collections module now contains conversions for Scala to/from Java primitives. Also: bidirectional conversions, renaming the subtype in sealed/enum conversions, enabling default values only for a specific type, and more!
Chimney contributors
caliban 2.8.0

This release brings a long-awaited feature: @oneOf inputs. There's also possibility to easily use tapir with impure effects such as Ox. The release also includes a few breaking changes that should impact a very low amount of users.
Caliban contributors





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