This week in #Scala (Sep 21, 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

• Scala 3 — A community-powered release
• Tour of Scala
• 4 Ways to Make Change
• Underscores are Overloaded in Scala!
• A compile-time type-level quine program for Dotty (Scala 3)
• dotty + scala.js + nodejs example project — build test
• Safe, Expressive Code with Refinement Types
• An HTTP server dockerized with tracer, database, and perf-test module
• Lenses, Prisms and Optics in Scala
• Scala, React, and SSR (part 2)
• Alpakka 2.0.2 adds a connector for Google BigQuery for Akka Streams
• 5 lessons learned from my continuing awesome journey with ZIO
• Tagless Final — Part 11 — main-http-http4s (The Big Rewrite)
• Testing asynchronous pipelines with fs2 and weaver-test
• Scala Africa Development Program Has Launched
• Virtual Scala, September 24th, Online Meetup

Releases

• Cats v2.2.0 is out
• Cats-mtl 1.0.0 released
• Released SwayDB v0.16 with performance improvement, complete Java API & Boopickle support
• New ninny-json is out

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