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July 11th, 2024, ISSUE 540

READING

PureConfig with Scala 3 - Tutorial

While there are still some loose ends and navigating through the Scala 3 derivation in PureConfig can be confusing, the overall situation is much better than it was just a few months ago.
Grzegorz Bielski
Developer Experience in Open Source Software

Some reflections on DX, with examples from the Scala ecosystem.
Krzysztof Ciesielski (@kpciesielski)
"Learn Functional Programming The Fast Way!" PDF is free

Learn about Scala error-handling data types (Option, Try, and Either), and get started with ZIO!
Alvin Alexander (@alvinalexander)

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)
ScalaWAW #33 - beach party! Jul 25th

It's high time for the legendary annual ScalaWAW beach party! The idea is pretty simple - no talks, no strict formula, just chill and enjoy the beach, the weather, and of course networking with fellow (not-only-Scala) programmers.
ScalaWAW (@scalawaw)
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

SCALAR Conference 2024 full playlist

All talks recorded and collected in one place.
SoftwareMill (@softwaremill)
Tapir Tutorial - part 6: Error Variants

When many things might go wrong, or right - describing success & errors outputs with many variants.
Adam Warski (@adamwarski)
Scala Space Podcast: The Future of Scala IDEs

Łukasz Biały and his guests are going to discuss the new developments in the area of Scala tooling and their possible impact for the future of Scala IDEs.
Igal Tabachnik and Jędrzej Rochala (@hmemcpy, @@jrochala)

RELEASES

scala-cli 1.4.0

Running the REPL with the test scope, using jvm directives are now always respected, support for Scala Native 0.5.4, Scala Toolkit 0.4.0 & 0.3.0 defaults, and more!
scala-cli contributors
raise4s 0.0.8

This version is focused on strengthening the integration with the Cats library. This time, we added support for the Validated[E, A] type.
Riccardo Cardin (@riccardo_cardin)
scalag

Multi-platform GPGPU computations with Scala, seamlessly.
scalag contributors
Ox 0.3.0

OxApp to define app entry points, a bunch of new Source operators, fixes, and dependency updates.
Ox contributors
chimney 1.3.0

Another pack of new featuers, improvements, and fixes!
Mateusz Kubuszok (@MateuszKubuszok)

VARIA

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