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April 30th, 2025, ISSUE 581

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Recursion Schemes & Mill with our special guest Li Haoyi, Mon, Jun 2, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

- Markus Klink, inoio: Recursion is the goto of functional programming - Li Haoyi, author of Hands on Scala: Improving the Scala Build Tool Experience
Scala Hamburg
WORKSHOP: Principled Metaprogramming in Scala 3

This workshop will be given by Jon Pretty on Thursday and Friday of LambdaConf week.
Jon Pretty (@propensive)
The Scala Workshop 2025 - The Scala Workshop 2025

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.
Scala Spring Meetup @ Truecaller, Thu, May 15, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup

Hello again, Scala lovers! It's time for another Scala meetup, this time hosted by TrueCaller, at their beautiful offices on Mäster Samuelssgatan.
Scala Stockholm

VIDEOS

Programming a Language by Nicolas Rinaudo | Scalar Conference 2025

Programming languages are a large amount of our day to day work and, for some of us, our hobbies. And Nicolas is very much of the opinion that in order to fully understand our tools, we must be able to make them ourselves.
Scalar Conference (@scalarconf)
Durable Event-sourced Workflow Monad... Seriously! - Wojtek Pituła | Scalar Conference 2025

Tired of relying on bulky 3rd-party servers for managing workflows or building lightweight but ad-hoc solutions yourself? Imagine a library that offers a declarative, composable API and that requires only a database to run. Let Wojtek introduce you to workflows4s, a proof-of-concept state-of-the-art library solves the problem of long running stateful processes and builds on top of Scala 3 and principles of functional programming.
Wojtek Pitula (@Krever01)

PODCAST

Lachezar Yankov on the Func Prog Podcast - Zio, Scala and typed functional programming

Episode 2 of the Func Prog Podcast is out! Since this is a Scala-focused episode I thought I would share it here. In this episode I talk to Lachezar Yankov about Scala, Zio and how a powerful type system can help you write correct programs
Lachezar Yankov (@lachezar)

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