This week in #Scala (July 6, 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

• One-click install for Scala
• Folding algebraic data types — Scala tutorial
• Scala/Mill: Step 1, Creating a new Mill project
• The first project to learn Scala for an experienced engineer.
• What are the use cases of Type Lambdas in Dotty
• Cats Concurrency basics with Ref and Deferred
• Tagless Final — Part 3 — If only we had a crystal ball!
• Trace4Cats distributed tracing library/system
• Akka Streams by example: processing files
• Scala and Vim Part 1 — Some thoughts on coc-metals, nvim-metals, and on the Scala + Vim ecosystem
• Poppet — type-based Scala library for generating RPC services from service traits
• Sager: Generic records library
• Airframe RPC: A Framework for Using Scala Both for Frontend and Backend Programming
• Meet Freya! The library for writing Kubernetes (K8s) custom controllers easily!
• Grpcweb support for ScalaPB using Armeria RPC framework
• Mastering modularity in ZIO with ZLayers
• Getting started with ZIO
• A Tour of ZIO Streams
• Functional, Type-safe, Testable Microservices with ZIO gRPC by Nadav Samet on the 16th of July (alternative event here)
• Free workshop on configuration management in Scala using zio-config by Afsal Thaj on the 23rd of July

Releases

• Spark 3.0.0 is out!
• Dotty 0.25.0-RC2 available
• Metals v0.9.1 is out offering Ammonite support, a new project provider, worksheet dependency support and more!
• Quill version 3.5.2 is out
• ScalaTest 3.2.0 available

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