This week in #Scala (March 25, 2019)

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

• Proposal to deprecate and remove symbol literals
• Proposal to add kind polymorphism to the language
• Proposal to add top-level definitions (and replace package objects)
• Proposal for explicit syntax for Type Lambdas
• Rob Norris joins Scala Center’s Advisory Board as a new community representative
• Explanation of why Multiversal Equality needs two parameters
• A monad is not a burrito
• Recursion Schemes: the High-School Introduction
• Scala sbt Project Directory Walkthrough
• AWS Lambda — How to Automate Your Spark Jobs on AWS Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
• The big push for ZIO 1.0 documentation is underway
• Open-sourcing the first OpenRTB Scala framework
• mdoc: Typechecked markdown documentation for Scala
• A practical introduction to Spark’s Column- part 1
• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019