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January 13th, 2022, ISSUE 413

READING

Notes about loading configuration Examples for Play Framework and Spring Boot

This post summarizes the process we have followed to load configuration our projects, while the examples are for Play Framework and Spring Boot, most ideas are agnostic to the framework/language.
Alexis Hernandez

VIDEOS

Scala project from scratch #6

This one is a chill episode. We're starting from where we left off last time, enhancing our server-side executor to finally start storing build results.
Jakub Kozłowski (@kubukoz)
"Functional Programming for Mortals with Scalaz" Review

One of the most challenging book reviews I've ever done.
DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

EVENTS

Scala Love CFP, February 18th, 2022, Online Event

CFP closes on January 16th. Everyone is very welcome to apply to speak at Scala Love. We are looking for people willing to share their knowledge in the company of other great developers.
Scala Love (@scala_love)
ScalaMatsuri CFP, March 19th - 20th, 2022, Online Event

CFP will close at January 15th (Sat), 2022 Anywhere on Earth (Jan 16th 20:59 JST).
ScalaMatsuri (@ScalaMatsuri)
TypeVille, April 19th - 23rd 2022, Krynica-Zdrój, Poland

The new brand name for Scalar comes in April 2022!
SoftwareMill (@typevilleconf)

RELEASES

Scala Native 0.4.3-RC2

This version brings support for Scala 3, and multiple bugfixes found since previous release candidate. This release does also contain performance-critical bug fixes to performing operations on Strings, leading to significant improvement of regexes throughput.
Scala Native contributors (@scala_native)
bps-scala

Scala translation of the truth maintenance systems and other tools from Forbus and de Kleer's Building Problem Solvers.
John Maraist (@jpmrst)
giter8 0.14.0

Giter8 is a command line tool to generate files and directories from templates published on GitHub or any other Git repository.
giter8 contributors
sbt-typelevel

Sbt plugin for publishing semantically-versioned, binary-compatible artifacts to Maven/Sonatype from GitHub Actions.
sbt-typelevel contributors
zio-http 2.0.0-RC1

Now with ZIO2 support!
zio-http contributors
Metals 0.11.0 - Aluminium

Metals is a language server for Scala that works with VS Code, Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text and Eclipse. Version 0.11 brings CFR class file viewer, Scala 3 type annotations on code selection, simplified usage of sbt server, extract value code action, basic java support and a lot more.
Metals contributors
John Snow Labs Spark-NLP 3.4.0

New OpenAI GPT-2, new ALBERT, XLNet, RoBERTa, XLM-RoBERTa, and Longformer for Sequence Classification, support for Spark 3.2, and a lot more.
Spark-NLP contributors
Scala 2.13.8

This is a modest, incremental release focused on addressing regressions in 2.13.7.
Scala contributors

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