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April 11th, 2024, ISSUE 527

READING

sbt 2.x remote cache with Bazel compatibility

What I am proposing is to make sure we capture necessary information such that if we wanted to, sbt can talk to Bazel remote caches as if it is Bazel. Let’s call this property Bazel-compat. Additionally, if people wanted to extend it to support S3 etc they should be able to do so by implementing 6 or so methods.
Eugene Yokota (@eed3si9n)
How implicits are useful

A great explanation in a Reddit comment.
Alexandru Nedelcu (@alexelcu)

EVENTS

ScalaWAW #32, Apr 18th, Warsaw

Join us and watch "Domain, API, DTO - translating between layers with Chimney" by Mateusz Kubuszok, as well as a talk about IDEs by Jędrzej Rochala.
ScalaWAW (@scalawaw)
LambdaConf, May 4th-10th, Estes Park, Colorado

Get ready!
LambdaConf (@lambda_conf)
LambdaConf - The Grand Hackathon Finale, May 10th

The Hackathon provides an opportunity to put the theories and concepts from LambdaConf into immediate practice. It's an interactive arena for trying out new ideas, testing them, and producing innovative solutions.
LambdaConf (@lambda_conf)
ScalaMatsuri, June 7th-9th, Tokyo, Japan

The largest international Scala conference in Asia.
ScalaMatsuri (@ScalaMatsuri)

VIDEOS

10 flavors of Scala's future - Scalar 2024 recap

This time, I'm not the one doing the talking. In fact, we're barely talking about the actual conference. But I asked a bunch of questions about Scala's future and I think you'll want to hear the answers!
Jakub Kozłowski (@kubukoz)
Music DSL in Scala.js with Paul Matthews

Join me in this exciting episode as I sit down with Paul Matthews, a Scala developer at ClearScore who also happens to be a former rock star! We delve into Paul's fascinating journey, exploring his deep-seated passion for music and how it intersects with his tech expertise. Get ready to be inspired as Paul shares insights into his innovative Scala.js library, "Sound of Scala," and the thrilling fusion of music and coding.
Paul Matthews
Algebraic Effects from Scratch

Learn the semantics, see a Kyo example, GADTs, and composition in action.
Kit Langton (@kitlangton)

RELEASES

Scala Native 0.5.0

support for multithreading based on platform threads, support for targeting 32-bit architectures, source level debugging support, various changes to the build system, and many more changes!
Scala Native contributors (@scala_native)
scala-cli 1.2.2

This version is a small fix to recently released 1.2.1, which brings support for Scala 3.4.1, Scala.js 1.16.0, and some fixes and enhancements.
scala-cli contributors
Iris

TUI utility to simplify and manage theming on Linux.
Lucas Varsky
redacted

Prevents leaking sensitive fields defined inside `case class`.
Diego Casella (@polentino911)
dotty-cps-async 0.9.21

First release with automatic generation for 'shifted variants' of high-order functions, added compile-time checks for attempts to use direct syntax when the compiler plugin is not enabled, extended api.
dotty-cps-async contributors
zikyo

ZIO-inspired APIs for Kyo
jiveshungerford





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