matejcerny 3 months ago

"Notably, around 20% of attendees were new to Scala" 😳 #scala

Scalac - Software Development Company - Akka, Kafka, Spark, ZIO

Scala Days 2025 Recap - a Scala community reunion

Scala Days 2025 Recap: Discover key insights on Scala 3, AI, and Akka from Lausanne. The future of tech and community growth.

matejcerny 3 months ago

ZIO+Tapir+Quill combo template with CRUD operations, authentication, routing, pagination, monitoring and more. AKA type-safe, purely functional alternative to the Spring Boot ecosystem. #scala #zio

GitHub

GitHub - softwaremill/realworld-tapir-zio: RealWorld.io with tapir and ZIO

RealWorld.io with tapir and ZIO. Contribute to softwaremill/realworld-tapir-zio development by creating an account on GitHub.

matejcerny 3 months ago

I know Scala is not Haskell, but imagine Haskell introducing direct style to lower the initial learning curve...

matejcerny 3 months ago

A new minor release of Scala.js features bug fixes, performance improvements and support for some new JDK methods! 🎉 #scala

Scala.js

Announcing Scala.js 1.20.1

Harness the Scala and JavaScript ecosystems to develop robust apps for browsers, serverless, and Node.js.

matejcerny 3 months ago

Custom error types in the cats IO without monad transformers! Made possible by the new MTL 1.6.0 release 🎉 #scala

Typelevel | Custom Error Types Using Cats Effect and MTL

Typelevel is an ecosystem of projects and a community of people united to foster an inclusive, welcoming, and safe environment around functional pr...

matejcerny 4 months ago

Another sad story about a Scala developer moving away from the language. What is even sadder is how accurate the article is. #scala

Medium

Why I am moving away from Scala

I have been a Scala developer for almost ten years. It was a fascinating journey, marked by exciting projects and numerous meetings with…

matejcerny 4 months ago

My apologies, it turns out the description I was looking for is actually on the landing page! 👍 #scala View quoted note →

matejcerny 4 months ago

One would think that in the official Scala toolkit there would be the most widely used libraries. Yet I haven't used MUnit, uPickle, and Cask in my whole career. #scala

matejcerny 4 months ago

The next level of freshness. Greetings from Corfu! 🇬🇷

matejcerny 4 months ago

Let's get your hands dirty with a Java builder pattern interop

Dealing with Java builder

Explores a nice alternative to deal with Java builder

#scala #java

matejcerny 4 months ago

Microsoft's MongoDB-compatible DocumentDB, based on Postgres, is gaining traction! The project is joining the Linux Foundation with AWS on board. 👉

DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation - Microsoft Open Source Blog

Learn how we’re carving out a path where document databases are open, interoperable, and standardized—built with flexibility and reliability.

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Amazon Web Services

AWS joins the DocumentDB project to build interoperable, open source document database technology | Amazon Web Services

At AWS, we design cloud services that give customers the freedom to choose technology that best suits their needs. Our commitment to interoperabili...

#postgres #documentdb

matejcerny 4 months ago

Accompanying article, much better reading than the official documentation 👍

Understanding Match Types in Scala 3 | bishabosha

What are Scala 3 match types for and how do they work.

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matejcerny 4 months ago

Explain to me how Scala can attract juniors to direct style when the majority of its current developers use effect systems?

Alexandru Nedelcu

Scala's Gamble with Direct Style

Scala does not move in the direction of more monadic IO, but rather in the direction of “direct style”, preferring continuations to monads, but...

#scala

matejcerny 4 months ago

Cool feature, don't forget to also check the documentation! #scala

matejcerny 4 months ago

Is there something wrong with my eyes, or is that really a Monoid in the presentation about Java? "What we propose here is most similar to Haskell's type classes" 🤯 #java

matejcerny 4 months ago

Isn't it time to start porting core libraries like Cats to Scala 3 syntax, or would maintaining two versions be too much of a hassle? The next Scala LTS is coming very soon. #scala

matejcerny 4 months ago

Unison's cheat sheet for Scala devs 🫵

Unison for Scala devs · Unison programming language

#scala #unison

matejcerny 4 months ago

Stay safe and beware of an unsafe Iterator!

Random Scala Tip #568: Beware of Leaking Iterators - Daniel Beskin

Beware of leaking `Iterator` instances outside the scope you initialized it in.

#scala

matejcerny 4 months ago

Don't get me wrong, Amazon working on its own Linux-based OS is a good thing, but HTML-based applications instead of native ones? Brr...

matejcerny 4 months ago

I would really like to maintain more OSS libraries, but to be honest, most of the time I'm just fixing publish pipelines 😡