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December 4th, 2020, ISSUE 355

READING

Scala 3 Developers' Survey

The survey is for all developers, whether you’re a professional, a hobbyist, or a student who code in Scala. Share your experience and expectations, and win an Amazon Gift card!
SoftwareMill (@softwaremill)
Four new features of Scala 2.13 releases that you probably missed

Interpolation on pattern matching, toXOption, pipe and tap, exhaustivity checks with if guards and more!
Michał Gutowski (@ferret_of_doom)
Scala 3: Path-Dependent Types, Dependent Methods and Functions

This short article is for the Scala developer who is curious about the capabilities of its type system. What I’m about to describe is not used very often, but when you need something like this, it can prove pretty powerful.
Daniel Ciocîrlan (@rockthejvm)
Message-based Parallelism with Actors

This blog post is a chapter 16 excerpt from the book Hands-on Scala Programming
Li Haoyi (@li_haoyi)
IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2020.3 Is Out!

Parallel compilation, compilation charts, enhanced package prefixes, and many more goodies!
JetBrains (@jetbrains)

VIDEOS

Coursier - Crash Course

In this video we will learn about Coursier - a pure Scala artifact fetcher that became a full blown package manager and a one stop shop for all your Scala environment needs.
DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)
Single command Scala Environment Setup via Coursier

In this video we will set up an entire Scala development environment with a single command!
DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)
Programming in Scala for beginners - week 11: scala and java interop

Open Scala lectures in Swedish by Björn Regnell at Lund University, Sweden.
Björn Regnell

EVENTS

Scala Love CFP

Scala Love takes place on February 13th, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM Central European Time (12:00 AM Midnight to 2:00 PM Pacific Standart Time). We are going to have two tracks: one for speakers based in Europe/Asia and one for speakers based in America! CFP closes at January 10, 2021 23:59 UTC January 11, 2021 00:59 CEST (Local)
Scala Love (@scala_love)
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. Every ticket holder to Functional Scala 2020 will receive an all-day Scala 3 course by John de Goes and a collectible T-shirt!
Ziverge (@zivergetech)
Scala 3 for Scala 2 developer, December 8th - 10th, Online training

In this course, developers who are already familiar with Scala 2.x will get a high-speed introduction to all the changes coming in Scala 3, including semantic changes, syntactic changes, new features, and dropped features. Use code "ScalaTimes10" to receive 10% off at the checkout.
John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)
Functional Scala Megapack (3 workshops)

Functional Design + Functional Data Modeling + Scala 3 for Scala 2 developers. Use our special link to get a 15% discount!
John A De Goes (@jdegoes)

RELEASES

zmail

ZIO based smtp server
Willem Vermeer (@willemvermeer)
Weaver Test

A lean test-framework built on top of cats-effect and fs2
Weaver Test contributors

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