This week in #Scala (September 3, 2018)
Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!
Sep 3, 2018 · 1 min read
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 last time, so lets catch-up on the latest Scala & Reactive happenings…
New Content
- Error handling pitfalls in Scala
- A case to introduce Scala in a Java world
- SIP Meeting August 2018
- SIP-NN — Converters among optional functions, partial functions and extractor objects
- Dotty Type classes proposal
- Instantiate case class with arbitrary values to reduce verbosity in tests
- Alpakka towards 1.0
- From Scala app to Kubernetes, part 2
- ScalphaGoZero, An independent implementation of DeepMind’s AlphaGoZero in Scala, using Deeplearning4J (DL4J)
Updated Software
- Scala 2.13.0-M5 is out, with more new-collections goodness
- Released Akka 2.5.16 including an important security fix.
- The Lagom team has released Lagom 1.4.8
- Just published Typelevel macro-compat 1.1.1 for scala 2.13.0-M5
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