One Script, Many Styles - Exploring Scala’s Ecosystem with scala-cli A hands-on comparison of different Scala scripting styles for automating tasks, using Scala-CLI to showcase idiomatic, futures-based, effect-system, and Ox direct-style approaches. Yann Moisan (@YannMoisan)

A simple tool to make illegal states unrepresentable A practical post showing how to use parameterized enums and derived properties in Scala to encode domain rules and prevent invalid states at compile time. Yann Moisan (@YannMoisan)

Exploring Neotype’s capabilities, pitfalls, and limitations in Scala 3 A review of Neotype for Scala 3, showing its advantages for newtypes and validation, while pointing out two practical limitations: loss of type abstraction and issues with dynamic validation syntax. Yann Moisan (@YannMoisan)

IntelliJ IDEA x Scala: The Debugger (Part 1) Learn how to leverage the debugger in order to work with Scala-specific features. Maciej Gorywoda (@makingthematrix)

Announcing ZIO Test support in scalamock classic (released in 7.5.0) As of version 7.5.0, scalamock classic has first-class support for ZIO Test. Evgeny Veretennikov (@evis_dev)

Scala 3.7.3 This version brings important warnings when explicit using clauses with defaults shadow givens, enhances Scala CLI to v1.9.0 (supporting Scala 3.8 nightlies), and introduces a new Maven repository for Scala 3 nightly releases. Scala Contributors

ldbc 0.4.0 ldbc (Lepus Database Connectivity) is Pure functional JDBC layer with Cats Effect 3 and Scala 3. This release includes new feature additions, enhancements to existing features, disruptive changes and much more. Takahiko Tominaga (@takapi327)

LLM4s Dev Hour – Sundays @ 9am London Time Just finished another great hour of mob programming. We’re now doing this every Sunday — 60 minutes of live coding, debugging, and learning together in public. LLM4s

ScalaWAW #36 - Scala Plugin for IntelliJ hackathon, Oct 9th, Warsaw, Poland This event is all about contributing to IntelliJ Scala Plugin. We will have a list of "up for grabs" tickets. There will be members of the Scala Plugin team present at the hackaton to help you set up the project and answer your questions. There will be as well a tutorial, published closer to the event's date, about how you can set up everything yourself beforehand to be able to reproduce the issue you work on and test it. ScalaWAW (@scalawaw)

The Scala Workshop, Oct 13th, Singapore The Scala Workshop is the continuation of the Scala Symposium, providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the design, implementation, and applications of the Scala programming language. Topics include language features, compiler internals, type systems, libraries, tools, and industrial applications. EPFL

Func Prog Conf, Oct 15th, Stockholm, Sweden Func Prog Conf is a half-day conference about functional programming. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn, network and have a good time! Func Prog Conf

Scala.IO, Oct 17th, Paris, France Scala.IO is a conference for people having interest in the Scala ecosystem or simply being curious about the language, usages. The conference is organized by Scala supporters from the community, and provides a great opportunity to meet with other enthusiasts and practitioners. Scala.io (@ScalaIO_FR)

DEVJVM, Oct 25th, Barranquilla, Colombia A conference uniting Java, Kotlin, and Scala developers. DEVJVM

Lambda World, Oct 23rd-25th, Cádiz, Spain The Fun-Fun Functional Programming Experience! Use Sc4l4OTB for a 10% discount for Scala Times readers! Lambda World (@lambda_world)

Designing Simpler Scala Build Tools with Object-Oriented Programming, Nov 17th, Boston, USA This talk will explore why build tooling is fundamentally such a difficult domain to work in, and how common concepts from object-oriented programming have the potential to simplify the build tool experience. We will end with a demonstration of the Mill build tool that makes use of these ideas, proving out the idea that Scala build tooling has the potential to be much faster, safer, and easier than it is today. Boston Area Scala Enthusiasts

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