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May 25th, 2023, ISSUE 483

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How to serialize case class to Json in Scala 3 & Scala 2 using Circe

Learn about handling scenarios like sealed trait hierarchies and snake_case using Circe, and why it's tricky with Scala 3.
Adam Rybicki (@Flsh86)
A Splendid Scala Journey

While my love for Scala is unchanged, and I will continue to happily write Scala, my journey will take me to new places, and on new adventures.
John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)
From spring boot to ZIO

This article is a small summary of the personal journey that took me from spring boot to ZIO for some of my development cases.
Kristof Slechten (@KristofSl)
Two More Old Cents on Scala 3 Migration

Ed. (and TL;DR, likely) I really tried to just share our (my, mainly) sentiment and understanding of the situation about Scala 3 migration for our own specific case.
François Armand (@fanf42)

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RELEASES

realworld-tapir-zio

Here it is, the Mother of all demo apps, now available with ZIO + tapir + sttp + quill stack!
SoftwareMill (@softwaremill)
scala-sbt-codespaces-template

A repository template for Scala development in Codespaces.
Lucas Konstantin Bärenfänger (@typeduke)
tyrian 0.7.0

An Elm-inspired Scala UI library for Scala 3. At long last, frontend routing has come to Tyrian!
tyrian contributors
zio-cli 0.5.0

Rapidly build powerful command-line applications powered by ZIO.
zio-cli contributors
tui-scala

Beautiful Text-based User Interfaces for Scala.
tui-scala contributors
tree-sitter-scala 0.20.0

tree-sitter-scala is a Scala parser in C language, generated using Tree-sitter CLI, and conforming to the Tree-sitter API. New version brings improvements on parsing Scala 3 syntax.
tree-sitter-scala contributors (@eed3si9n)

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