Scala News This Week: January 22 to January 28, 2023

Last week I started a This week in Scala page, and I’m going to see if I can do another one this week. Without further ado:

• On ScalaJobs.com, Julien Truffaut posted the second part of a series, Implicit parameters when to use them?
• John De Goes released this blog post titled, Scala Resurrection. As he notes, some of his statements are backed up by the most recent Scala Developer Survey.
• Thanks to his blog post, I was reminded of this series of tweets from Martin Odersky about his new Caprese project.
• Tomasz Godzik notes here on Twitter that you can report problems with Metals in multiple locations, including Github, Discord, and Twitter.
• As I note here, I learned about the Scala Kojo project this week. It appears to be an IDE for people interested in learning Scala.
• Here are some slides on how to create more slides using Scala, mdoc, and other tools. I found that through this LinkedIn post.

In a slightly-related note:

• Softwaremill.com shared, Comparing Java frameworks for cloud-native environments. IMHO, this is important in the Scala world because Micronaut and Quarkus are good frameworks for microservices, and they both support Scala (to some extent). (I write this as someone who tried to use the Play Framework for microservices in the Google Cloud last year.)

In personal news:

• I released a free 115-page booklet on recursion, aptly named, Learning Recursion:

Other Scala resources

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• The Scala Contributors website
• The Scala Discord channel

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