This week in #Scala (Aug 24, 2020)

Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!

This blog aims to keep you up to date with the latest news from the world of Scala and Reactive programming.

It has been a week since the previous #ThisWeekInScala so lets catch-up on the latest Scala & Reactive happenings…

New Content

• Concurrency in Scala with cats-effect
• Nice ZIO combinators demo UI
• Scala Knowledge Bits Archives
• Scala String Interpolation
• Structured concurrency and pure functions
• Auto publish sbt plugin from Travis CI
• Building a Reactive, Distributed Messaging Server in Scala and Akka with WebSockets
• Combining Purely Functional Property Based and Docker Integration Tests in ZIO
• Running Postgres integration tests easily with TestContainers and ZIO
• Check out ShipReq, a web-based service for teams and individuals to record, maintain, automate, and socialize your project’s requirements, issues, tasks, design documents, interviews, test cases, and more
• Scala, React, and SSR (part 1)
• Type-Level Programming in Scala, Part 2 | Rock the JVM
• Tagless Final — Part 8.1 — main (The Big Rewrite — Part 4.1)
• VimtelliJ: All the best of Vim in IntelliJ
• FP in the City Virtual Conference, September 10th

Releases

• Announcing kafkastreams4s
• Released fs2 2.4.4 with a couple important fixes
• Magnolia 0.17.0 has just been released, including bugfixes and code cleanup
• sbt 1.4.0-M2 is available
• Scalacheck Faker 5.0.8 is out
• Metals v0.9.3 is out with support for Scala3 worksheets, sbt script support, and many small improvements!

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