This week in #Scala (May 18, 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

• Roadmap for the TASTy Reader For Scala 2
• Starting with Scala 3 macros: a short tutorial
• Import Suggestions in Scala 3
• Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions for a Scala project
• Scala to native code with GraalVM and GitHub Actions
• Scala Native Next Steps
• Implementing Authentication on Play Framework
• Building a Super Easy Rate Limiter with ZIO
• Building the Death Star with ZIO Stream
• ZIO for IntelliJ
• Effect Tracking Is Commercially Worthless
• Selective functor in sbt
• cached compilation for sbt
• Blog on Architecting a back-end using Slick and Tagless Final pattern
• Circe — Part 1 — Introduction to working with JSON in Scala
• Circe — Part 3.1 — Integrations & Extras
• Playing with Scala — ReST UI
• Good read on Project Loom virtual threads — can prove powerful for Scala async libraries
• State of Loom
• Check out memento, Kafka messages non-blocking reprocessor and delayed producer service
• And also zio-properties: A ZIO alternative to Spring Properties
• Judge0 IDE adds Scala support
• Lightbend Contributes Two Key Commercial Features to Akka Open Source
• Thoughts on Recent Online-Only Conferences
• Scala in the City Conference

Releases

• Metals v0.9.0 — Lithium available
• Version 0.7.0 of the Mill build tool is out
• scalajs-benchmark v0.6.0 released with Scala.JS 1.0 support, JMH JSON export, and more
• sort-imports 0.5.0 available
• onnx-scala 0.3.0 is out
• Dotty 0.24.0-RC1 released
• Alpakka 2.0 Released
• Akka Persistence Cassandra 1.0 released
• Released Akka HTTP 10.1.12 — particularly interesting when you’re using HTTP/2 and want to update to JDK 8u252
• ScalaCSS 0.6.1 released with Scala.JS 1.0 support
• TestState 2.4.1 released with Scala.JS 1.0 support

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