matejcerny 7 months ago

Scala 3.7.1, the first patch release for the 3.7 series, is now available. 🎉 It brings support for the upcoming JDK 25, along with key stability improvements and bug fixes. #scala

GitHub

Release 3.7.1 · scala/scala3

Highlights of the release Support for JDK 25 #23004 Warn if interpolator uses toString #20578 Warn if match in block is not used for PartialFuncti...

matejcerny 7 months ago

Hearing about the downtrend for Scala makes me wonder how many Scala developers are out there. The official Scala X account has ~30k followers. Is the actual number of developers more than this, or less? Do you have any tips? #scala #rust

X (formerly Twitter)

Igal Tabachnik (@hmemcpy) on X

I was recently invited on a podcast to talk about using Rust at work, and my journey to Rust coming from a more functional background. Here's my ra...

matejcerny 7 months ago

I read somewhere that the "vimification" of every program on your computer is just a phase in life. But damn, this extension is awesome! 😂 #vim https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb

matejcerny 7 months ago

For all the Czechs here, today's Functional Meetup has been moved to next Monday, 2025-06-09.

Meetup

Fun JVM: Scala at Adastra & Flavors of Scala - Spicing up your coding style, Mon, Jun 9, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

*We'll meet at Adastra office, Mississippi House at Karlín. We'll gather at the ground floor at the reception and then we'll proceed to the office...

matejcerny 7 months ago

Great interview with Jonas Bonér covering Akka's history, core concepts (Actors, Streams, Persistence), the shift to BSL, and its role in AgenticAI. #akka #scala

matejcerny 7 months ago

Another survey, this time from Stack Overflow. Much shorter in comparison with the one from IntelliJ, but includes quite a lot of AI questions 🙄

2025 Developer Survey | Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow's annual Developer Survey is for the worldwide developer and technology community to answer questions about what they use and how th...

matejcerny 7 months ago

To understand from the ground up how and why streams work like they do, I recommend this video. John explains it in a very simple and natural way by iterating from a simple list up all the way to ZChannel. #scala

matejcerny 7 months ago

After experimenting with @Zed a couple of months ago, I have now finally ditched @IntellijJ for good. And it's awesome! So awesome that I need to share it with you, sorry 😂

matejcerny 7 months ago

Spark 4.0 is official! 🎉 Scala 2.13 and JDK 17 are the new defaults! It also supports the SQL pipe syntax, so you can do e.g. 'FROM customer |> JOIN orders ON ... |> AGGREGATE COUNT ...' #scala #spark #sql

Spark Release 4.0.0 | Apache Spark

matejcerny 7 months ago

Fill in this survey if you want Scala to be more recognized. Just a heads-up, it's looong! It took me half an hour to finish it. #scala

Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025

Take our survey, shape the future, and seize the chance to win a MacBook Pro or other rewards!

matejcerny 7 months ago

Keeping an eye on this project! 👀 #scala

GitHub

GitHub - TomasMikula/jing: Typesafe, spec-first APIs without codegen. Just Import 'N' Go!

Typesafe, spec-first APIs without codegen. Just Import 'N' Go! - TomasMikula/jing

matejcerny 7 months ago

What an incredible lineup! #scaladays

Scala Days

2025 Schedule

The premier Scala conference returns in 2025

matejcerny 7 months ago

That might be an unpopular opinion, but I really don't mind adding an import when concatenating e.g. a List with an Array. But I would rather remove the restriction on implicit conversions than add another keyword. #scala

Scala Contributors

Pre-SIP: Allow fully implicit conversions in Scala 3 with `into`

Thank you all for your input. That was very helpful improving the proposal. I believe the overall appreciation tended positive so I went ahead and ...

matejcerny 7 months ago

Despite not being a VS Code user, this Postgres extension looks great! I would really like to see it in Zed! #postgres #vscode

TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM

Announcing a new IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code from Microsoft | Microsoft Community Hub

We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreS...

matejcerny 7 months ago

Even though it's still in the pre-alpha phase, it's a huge step forward for Kotlin! The official LSP by JetBrains! 🎉 #kotlin

GitHub

GitHub - Kotlin/kotlin-lsp: Kotlin Language Server and plugin for Visual Studio Code

Kotlin Language Server and plugin for Visual Studio Code - Kotlin/kotlin-lsp

matejcerny 7 months ago

Of course I had pizza for dinner! 😀 Happy ATH to everyone! 🎉 #bitcoin #ath

matejcerny 7 months ago

Let's say you are a Java developer looking to take the next step and fully dive into functional programming. Don't be scared of Scala's syntax! Take a look - it's often more familiar than you might think! #java #scala #functionalprogramming

matejcerny 7 months ago

Soon I will become a farmer! 😂 ✅ install Vim plugin to IntelliJ ✅ buy a split keyboard ✅ install LazyVim ⌛ configure Neovim from scratch

matejcerny 7 months ago

The new version of the IntelliJ Scala plugin is out. Now you can use the "better-fors" syntax from Scala 3.7! ❤️ #scala https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1347-scala/versions/stable/748379

matejcerny 7 months ago

Not sure if I am comfortable with the current pace of innovation 🤯