An old coding challenge I resolved with Scala See how Scala helped to solve a task related to CSS Selector Matching. Alexis Hernandez (@alexitcdev)

Controlling program flow with capabilities This article intends to fix this by exploring how to jump around in a program, short-circuiting computations as and when necessary. This is a powerful tool that we’ll bring to bear to make code that can be a little thorny in a monadic style quite clear in a capabilities-backed direct style, without loosing the properties we care about. Nicolas Rinaudo (@NicolasRinaudo)

A new repository for Scala nightlies As a result of a number of features to be delivered in Scala 3.8, chief among them the standard library built with Scala 3, the size of the average Scala 3 release has increased considerably. Based on that fact, we have decided it is no longer suitable to publish them to Maven Central alongside stable releases, and a dedicated hosting space should be used instead. Piotr Chabelski, Hamza Remmal & Scala Core Team

Understanding Contramap You all know "map", let's learn about "contramap". Higher-Kinded Type

Effects and concurrency in functional programming We'll explore managing effects and concurrency using functional programming principles and the Cats-Effect library in Scala, showcasing how that enforces actual best practices in your entire codebase that help in building anti-fragile, industrial strength applications. Alexandru Nedelcu (@alexelcu)

Meet new release of jsoniter-scala with much faster codec derivation The biggest boost comes from Scala 3 macros: by eliminating ~400 redundant calls to .asExprOf[...] (replaced with .asExpr for terms and .asInstanceOf[Expr[...]] for expressions), so codec derivation got a significant speedup. Andriy Plokhotnyuk (@aplokhotnyuk)

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

ScalaWAW #36 - Scala Plugin for IntelliJ hackathon, Oct 9th, Warsaw, Poland This event is all about contributing to IntelliJ Scala Plugin. We will have a list of "up for grabs" tickets. There will be members of the Scala Plugin team present at the hackaton to help you set up the project and answer your questions. There will be as well a tutorial, published closer to the event's date, about how you can set up everything yourself beforehand to be able to reproduce the issue you work on and test it. ScalaWAW (@scalawaw)

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

Func Prog Conf, Oct 15th, Stockholm, Sweden Func Prog Conf is a half-day conference about functional programming. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn, network and have a good time! Func Prog Conf

Scala.IO, Oct 17th, Paris, France Scala.IO is a conference for people having interest in the Scala ecosystem or simply being curious about the language, usages. The conference is organized by Scala supporters from the community, and provides a great opportunity to meet with other enthusiasts and practitioners. Scala.io (@ScalaIO_FR)

DEVJVM, Oct 25th, Barranquilla, Colombia A conference uniting Java, Kotlin, and Scala developers. DEVJVM

Lambda World, Oct 23rd-25th, Cádiz, Spain The Fun-Fun Functional Programming Experience! Use Sc4l4OTB for a 10% discount for Scala Times readers! Lambda World (@lambda_world)

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