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Reactive Streams in Scala: Akka Streams vs Monix - part 3

So far we've learned what a typical processing pipeline looks like, and how to implement its building blocks. Now it's high time we put everything together and run the import process.
Jacek Kunicki (@rucek)
Scala in 2017 - The State of Developer Ecosystem

Final poll results, shining some lights on the most popular tools and libraries.
JetBains
Analyzing GitHub, how developers change programming languages over time

An impressive analysis, with some interesting appeareances of Scala.
Waren Long (@warenlg)
Adopting JDK9 Flow.* without hurting JDK8 Reactive Streams users with Akka Streams

This is a design proposal and proof-of-concept of using multi-release jars.
Konrad Malawski (@ktosopl)
Managing Library Dependencies in SBT Builds

In this post we look at how we can use SBT's source generators to centrally manage library dependencies across a recursive SBT build.
Carl Pulley (@carlpulley)
IntelliJ IDEA Scala plugin 2017.2: SBT 1.0, improved SBT Shell, Play 2.6 and better implicits management | IntelliJ Scala plugin blog

What's new in one of the most popular Scala IDEs?
JetBrains (@jetbrains)
Improving Akka dispatchers | Scalac

Can you make Akka even faster?
Zahari Dichev (@zaharidichev)

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RELEASES

scalajs-react 1.1.0

New Redirect.Method, new router rewrite rule, many fixes and updated dependencies.
scalajs-react contributors
sbt 1.0.0-RC2

Another release candidate, the final release is just around the corner.
sbt contributors
sttp 0.0.1

Is it really the HTTP client for Scala that you always wanted?
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