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December 9th, 2021, ISSUE 408

READING

7 ZIO experts share why they choose ZIO

Read experienced professionals in this field telling you why a Scala library such as ZIO could be the perfect choice for creating your project.
ENSIME: The Next Generation

I have started a completely fresh rewrite of ENSIME, the ENhanced Scala Interaction Mode for Emacs.
Sam Halliday (@fommil)

VIDEOS

Coding at 6am isn't fun

Advent of Code is still going strong! This episode is my attempts at solving the tasks from days 2-5. Enjoy!
Jakub Kozłowski (@kubukoz)

EVENTS

Build Web Servers with ZIO (SF - Bay Area Edition), Dec 13th - 17th

In this course, developers will use ZIO and best-in-breed libraries to rapidly construct web applications that are scalable; easy to test, refactor, and maintain; and which never leak resources or deadlock. Use our link to get a 20% discount for Scala Times readers!
John A. De Goes (@jdegoes)
ScalaMatsuri CFP, March 19th - 20th, 2022, Online Event

CFP will close at January 15th (Sat), 2022 Anywhere on Earth (Jan 16th 20:59 JST).
ScalaMatsuri (@ScalaMatsuri)
TypeVille CP, April 20th - 23rd 2022

The new brand name for Scalar comes in April 2022! Submit a C4P application by January 9th.
SoftwareMill (@softwaremill)

RELEASES

Endless4s

Endless is a Scala library to describe event sourced entities using tagless-final algebras, running with built-in implementations for Akka.
Jonas Chapuis (@JonasChapuis)
Scala Native 0.4.2

We’re happy to announce the patch release of Scala Native 0.4.2, which brings improvements to Java HashMaps implementation and faster Zone allocations.
Scala Native contributors
Alpakka 3.0.4

New connectors: Google Cloud BigQuery Storage, Huawei Push Kit. Also, a bunch of improvements and bugfixes.
Alpakka contributors

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