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April 14th, 2022, ISSUE 426

READING

Bootzooka 2022: cats-effect 3, autowire &tapir

Our showcase project has been greatly improved to be up to date with latest library versions and patterns.
Adam Warski (@adamwarski)
Scala's Gitter to Discord migration mistake

Alex discusses various concerns: how Discord is an information black hole,a closed ecosystem, how it can’t be read without having an account, how its servers and channels can’t be linked from across the web, and other issues.
Alexandru Nedelcu (@alexelcu)
Scala Center Q1 2022 Update

Simplified the implementation of scaladex 11 and added a new feature, “Awesome Scala”, as well as refreshed the landing page of the Scala website and other updates!
Julien Richard-Foy (@julienrf)

VIDEOS

Diamond Architecture - How to build HUMONGOUS Apps FAST!

This video is about the diamond architecture - a guideline for arranging dependencies of software applications of all sizes for fast build times.
DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

EVENTS

Lambda Days, July 28th-29th, Kraków, Poland

A vibrant event focused on FP and its growing community. Find out what is possible with functional programming - explore the latest in battle-tested Scala, Erlang and Haskell, experience the energy F# and Elixir bring to the table, connect with the innovators working with Elm, Luna and Ocaml, see what comes up next!
LambdaDays (@LambdaDays)
ScalaCon 2022 CFP, October 4th-5th, virtual event

ScalaCon is looking for talks covering different areas of Scala. Talk slots are around 40-45 minutes in length with 5 minutes of Q&A time. CFP closes at May 12, 2022 16:50 UTC!
ScalaCon (@scalacon)

RELEASES

Scala 3.1.2

An experimental possibility to configure the Scala output version, changes to other compatibility flags, new -Xmacro-settings flag, and more juicy improvements!
Scala contributors
comp-benchmark-runner

Benchmarking compilation speeds across several Scala projects on MacBook Pros I have available at home.
Jakub Kozłowski (@kubukoz)
IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2022.1

Now with reporting unused public definitions and more!
JetBrains (@jetbrains)

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