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October 12th, 2023, ISSUE 502

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In Defence of Mocks

I’ve been using mocks throughout my whole career, and I can hardly imagine life without them. So let me antagonize a good chunk of the Scala community by trying to defend these poor little objects.
Voytek Pituła (@Krever01)
Turning actors inside-out

Or... do we really need actor systems?
Eric Torreborre (@etorreborre)
Learn how to package your Scala application with ease

Meet sbt-assembly, sbt-native-packager, sbt proguard, and check how to handle scala-cli.
Yadu Krishnan (@yadukrishnank)
Why on earth a ZIO IO monad for Scala?

It turns out that composition of pure functions and equational reasoning are a couple of very important things in practice that we lose due to impurity. But what are those things and why are so important? In this article we will try to answer that question by discussing some practical examples.
Americo Vargas

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chimney 0.8.0

full feature parity between Scala 2.12, 2.13 and 3, JVM, Scala.js and Scala Native, better support for Protobufs and Java's build-in types, macro derivation logic logging, and a lot of bugfixes.
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tapir 1.8.1

Pekko GRPC support, OpenAPI 3.0 fixes, Pickler fixes and improvements, validator fixes, and many more!
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