This week in #Scala (Sep 23, 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

• Simple Web and Api Servers with Scala
• Build your own Programming Language with Scala
• Why Parallel
• Cats 2.0 migration guide
• Scala Almost Succeeded
• Kenji Yoshida and Kelley Robinson received the community award
• Considering Scala?
• http4s: from Cats to ZIO
• Build your own Kafka in ZIO — ZIO Queues & ZIO Fibers
• Human-readable case class diffs
• Fixtures in Scala — three simple ways to reduce your test code boilerplate
• Composing functions with Reader monad
• GoF design patterns in Scala: Visitor
• Poll: Scala 3’s “given” keyword should be renamed to _____?
• Top 10 Scala Libraries For Data Science
• Comprehensive test suite to use for Scala collections
• Evvo — an open-source framework for distributed evolutionary algorithms
• Cassandra scala client
• Functional tests with Scala, SBT, Play framework, Specs2 and one application per test suite
• Getting started with Scalafmt
• The Traverse type class in Cats

Releases

• Scala 2.13.1 released!
• sbt 1.3.2 is out
• Scala.js 0.6.29 is released
• canoe 0.1.0 is out
• Released fs2 2.0.1 with an important memory leak fix
• Released scalaxb 1.7.3 featuring Scala 2.13 support contributed

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