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August 4th, 2022, ISSUE 441

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The future of effects in Scala?

Recently Jack Viers and Raul Raja from 47 Degrees posted a pre-SIP proposal to add Kotlin-like suspend functions to Scala. The proposal itself is an interesting read, but it is also followed by a long and insightful discussion.
Adam Warski (@adamwarski)

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ZIO 2 dot Ohhhhh!

Our co-author on Effect Oriented Programming, Bill Frasure, joins us to chat about his programming journey and his involvement in last week's ZIO 2.0 release.
Happy Path Programming (@HappyPathProg)

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Functional Programming Crash Course for Scala Beginners

Everything you need to know about FP in Scala in one video: immutability, lambdas, monads, tagless-final (TF), effect types and effect type libraries like monix, cats-effect and ZIO.
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