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December 31st, 2021, ISSUE 411

READING

Scala and Rust interoperability via JNI

The blogpost explains how we can use Rust code from Scala (on JVM) via JNI with the help of sbt-jni.
Ondřej Pelech
Learn Doobie for the Greater Good

A detailed explanation about how to set up and use Doobie.
Riccardo Cardin, Daniel Ciocîrlan (@riccardo_cardin)

EVENTS

Scala Love CFP, February 18th, 2022, Online Event

Everyone is very welcome to apply to speak at Scala Love. We are looking for people willing to share their knowledge in the company of other great developers.
Scala Love (@scala_love)
ScalaMatsuri CFP, March 19th - 20th, 2022, Online Event

CFP will close at January 15th (Sat), 2022 Anywhere on Earth (Jan 16th 20:59 JST).
ScalaMatsuri (@ScalaMatsuri)
TypeVille CFP, April 20th - 23rd 2022, Krynica-Zdrój, Poland

The new brand name for Scalar comes in April 2022! Submit a C4P application by January 9th.
SoftwareMill (@typevilleconf)

RELEASES

sbt 1.6.0

As with sbt 1.5.x, it has a built-in support to build Scala 3. all you need is a blank build.sbt file, and ++3.1.0! from the shell
sbt contributors
ProtoQuill 3.12.0.Beta1.7

ZIO & Cassandra Drivers are now on latest Scala2-Quill code & V4 drivers. Included is a fun Caliban integration that lets you exclude + filter any column in GraphQL & optimizations go down to the DB!
ProtoQuill contributors (@ghostdogpr)
Scala Native 0.4.3-SNAPSHOT

We've a surprise for you, 0.4.3-SNAPSHOT release has just been published with Scala 3 support included!
Scala Native contributors (@scala_native)

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