This week in #Scala (Aug 3, 2020)
Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!
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2 min readAug 2, 2020
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
- “First Class” Types in Scala 3
- The Difference Between Null, Nothing, Nil, None and Unit in Scala
- Announcement — Indigo 0.2.0 is out for your FP game building needs
- Check out zio-json, Superfast JSON for Scala
- And trace4cats, Yet another distributed tracing system, this time just for Scala
- Tagless Final — Part 4.2 — Why The F[_]
- Tagless Final — Part 5 — core (The Big Rewrite — Part 1)
- What is an Effect?
- Writing Angular Services in Scala
Releases
- Announcing Dotty 0.26.0-RC1 — unified extension methods and more
- The release of Lagom Framework 1.6.3 is now available. This is a stepping stone towards Lagom 1.6.4 which will introduce the new SBR OSS into Lagom by default
- scodec-bits 1.1.18 released, cross built for Scala 2.11, 2.12, 2.13 x Scala.js 0.6, 1.1, and Dotty 0.26.0-RC1. Full binary compatibility on the Scala 2 releases
- IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2020.2 — Implicit auto-imports, Indentation-based braces, First-class companions, Auto-import for object members, In-editor Scaladoc rendering, Completion improvements
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