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December 23rd, 2021, ISSUE 410

READING

My Dos and Donts in sbt Build Definitions

The goal of this is to hopefully spark a conversation in your team about build definitions, how you write them, and best practices to follow.
Chris Kipp (@ckipp01)
Scala Chat: Hello Discord (So Long, Gitter)

On behalf of the Scala organization, I am pleased to announce that we have adopted Discord as our official chat platform.
Seth Tisue (@SethTisue)
Smart constructors for case classes

Learn patterns for safe object construction with built-in validation.
Noel Markham (@noelmarkham)
Gallia: a library for data transformation

Gallia is a Scala library for generic data transformation with a focus on practicality, readability, and scalability (if needed).
Anthony Cros (@anthony_cros)
Sourcegraph: Precise Code Intelligence for Java, Scala, and Kotlin

We are excited to announce that Sourcegraph now supports precise Code Intelligence for Java, Scala, and Kotlin. More precisely, this means you can get compiler-accurate “Go to definition” and “Find references” within a Git repository and all transitive dependencies of your codebase.
Ólafur Páll Geirsson (@olafurpg)
Top Link Of November: On the future of Akka & Lightbend

It's not a surprise that such an important summary of a crucial part of the Scala ecosystem has become the most popular article last month.
Jonas Bonér (@jboner)

VIDEOS

Implicits for Hypothetical Babies

Let's talk about, you know.
Kit Langton (@kitlangton)
"Akka Concurrency" Review & The Truth about Actors & Akka

There aren't many Akka books out there. This one is a bit controversial...
DevInsideYou (@DevInsideYou)

EVENTS

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

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 CFP, April 20th - 23rd 2022, Krynica-Zdrój, Poland

The new brand name for Scalar comes in April 2022! Submit a C4P application by January 9th.
SoftwareMill (@softwaremill)

RELEASES

macwire 2.5.2

MacWire generates new instance creation code of given classes, using values in the enclosing type for constructor parameters, with the help of Scala Macros. Latest MacWire significantly improves the experimental autowire variant. Autowire works at compile-time and generates code wiring your dependency graph, including cats-effect Resources, effects and factory methods.
Mateusz Borek
magnolia 1.0.0

Easy, fast, transparent generic derivation of typeclass instances - for Scala 2 and 3.
softwaremill (@softwaremill)
sbt-github

sbt plugin for GitHub Packages, publish packaged jars or remote cache artifacts.
Eric Peters (@ericpeters)
zio-cli 0.1.0

Rapidly build powerful command-line applications powered by ZIO.
zio-cli contributors
smithy4s

Smithy is an interface definition language (IDL) provided by AWS. It is protocol agnostic, flexible, and reasonably low surface, which facilitates the writing of tooling. Smithy4s is a tool that generates third-party-free, protocol-agnostic scala code from smithy specifications, and provides opt-in modules containing functions that use third-party libraries to interpret the generated code in different ways.
Olivier Mélois (@baccata64)
Akka 2.6.18

New passivation strategies for Cluster Sharding, non-snapshot artifacts for Scala 3, send all allocated shards to region/proxy when registering, and many other fixes/improvements.
Akka Team (@akkateam)
Akka gRPC 2.1.2

Featuring a more detailed code generation model, more convenient rich error messages, aligned protoc versions and some more goodies.
Akka Team (@akkateam)
feral 0.1.0-M1

This is the first milestone (pre-)release of feral, a framework for building and deploying serverless functions with Cats Effect. It has been baking for a while and we are excited to make it generally available for you to try!
Arman Bilge (@armanbilge)

VARIA

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