This week in #Scala (Nov 23, 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 let’s catch up on the latest Scala & Reactive happenings…

New Content

• Why You Should Learn Scala in 2020?
• I like Option.get
• Programming in Scala for beginners — week 8: matrices, type parameters
• Givens vs. Implicits in Scala 3
• Given and Using clauses in Scala 3
• Domain-Driven Design with FP in Scala
• Explicit term inference with Scala 3
• Keep alive for JMS connections
• JSON 2 Scala Case Class (online tool)
• Getting started with GraalVM and http4s
• A step-by-step guide for debugging memory leaks in Spark Applications

Releases

• Scala 2.13.4 released
• sbt 1.4.3 released
• Monix 3.3.0 released
• scala-steward 0.8.1 is out
• Metals v0.9.6 is out with Scala 2.13.4 support, implicit class and conversion decorations, file links in stack traces!
• New sbt-explicit-dependencies is available

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