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September 3rd, 2020, ISSUE 342

READING

What’s coming up in sttp client 3?

Simpler web sockets, simpler SttpBackend trait, safe response-as-stream, getting raw request bodies, typed JSON errors, errors as failed effects, and many more great improvements!
Adam Warski (@adamwarski)

PRESENTATIONS

Tagless Final - Part 8.2 - main (The Big Rewrite - Part 4.2)

In this video we are finally going to see our tagless final todo app in action. We will also talk a little about concurrency and start using cats-effect, monix and zio all in the same app. This is part 2/2.
DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

EVENTS

FP in the City Virtual Conference, September 10th

FP in the City Conference is for anyone who is passionate about learning and sharing their Functional programming knowledge.
Signify (@Signify_Tech)
Scala Castle, September 14th-17th

A hybrid online/offline event in place of the well-known Scala World.
Jon Pretty (@propensive)
Scala micro.sphere.it, September 15th

An evening with 3 great Scala presentations, including Martin Odersky!
VirtusLab (@VirtusLab)
Essential Effects EU, September 14th-16th, Online Course

Essential Effects introduces Cats Effect as a tool for building resource-safe and concurrent applications. If you self-identify as underrepresented or unemployed, we're happy to offer a 50% discount. Use discount code "scalatimes" for an additional 15% off.
Inner Product (@InnerProductLLC)
Functional Scala CFP

The CFP closes on October 15th
Ziverge (@zivergetech)
ZIO Hackathon, November 20th-21st, online event

Attendees of ZIO Hackathon 2020 will be able to attend talks on ZIO projects from leading open source contributors, as well as receive expert mentorship in contributing features, bug fixes, and documentation enhancements to the ZIO ecosystem of libraries.
Ziverge (@zivergetech)
Functional Scala, December 3th-4th, London

Learn the critical topics you need to excel as a Scala developer, and celebrate the Scala programming language and community.
Ziverge (@zivergetech)

RELEASES

ZparkIO 0.11.2

Boiler plate framework to use Spark and ZIO together.
Leo Benkel (@LeoBenkel)
sbt-native-image

Plugin to generate native-image binaries with sbt.
sbt-native-image contributors
Announcing Dotty 0.27.0-RC1

ScalaJS, performance, stability - check it out!
dotty contributors

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