One thing I've been trying to do with handsonscala.com is to make sure it looks *good*. Syntax highlighting, backgrounds, font weights, 2D layouts, all to make it a joy to read both colored-on-screen and greyscale-in-print. No more endless walls of black-and-white text!

Rick like discourse.purescript.org/t/ann-a-puresc… ?

Metals v0.9.1 is here! 🐚 - Ammonite scripts - New project wizard - Worksheet dependencies - Multiline string improvements - Scala 2.13.3, 0.24.0 and 0.25.0-RC2 - Build tool selection scalameta.org/metals/blog/20… Try it out with VS Code, Vim, Emacs, Sublime, Atom or Eclipse.

I tried to find any tweets about it but failed, so: Bloop 1.4.3 released (scalacenter.github.io/bloop/docs/bui…). At least for me it fixed one annoying issue which I had with one of RC version.

Just published new #ThisWeekInScala! Check it out here - medium.com/disney-streami… #Scala #akka #spark #zio #cats Scala @lightbend Disney Streaming

Scala 2.12.12 is here! It adds compiler support for scala-async and backports substantial performance improvements to collections (chiefly in immutable.{TreeSet, TreeMap, HashSet, HashMap}). Release notes: github.com/scala/scala/re…

- everyone on this planet: perfect Monday doesn't exist! - Haskell Love Conference: hold my beer! We have started the registration!! So how is your Monday now 😁? eventbrite.com/e/haskell-love… #Haskell 💜

probably not everyone ready for this

I played around with the new ZIO Prelude library for a couple of days. Here's a brain dump of my first impressions: justinhj.github.io/2020/08/02/wha…

I am absolutely thrilled! It will be one of a kind event ❤️❤️❤️

Fury Milestone 1 ("Alecto") will be released at Scala Castle on 14 September: this will be the first version capable of modelling most Scala builds, and will be the first of three milestone releases. We have just published the roadmap to version 1.0! propensive.com/opensource/fur…

Another IDEA like theme for emacs github.com/ianpan870102/j… works fine with metals, it looks slightly different but mostly same

We've just merged showing inferred type decorations in Metals for values or methods 🎉🎉🎉 This will be available in the next release, but you can try it out now in the newest snapshot. Let us know what you think!

I'm happier with my editor setup than I have been in quite some time. I don't shut up about Nvim LSP and friends primarily because it's just been working so damn well for me.

We have just released Scala 3.0.0-RC3 with some critical bug fixes for 3.0.0 stable. Read more about what this release implies in the blog article: dotty.epfl.ch/blog/2021/04/2…

IS IT REALLY HAPPENING???? github.com/lampepfl/dotty…

Metals v0.10.3 is released! 🤖 - Scala 3.0.0 - Scala 2.13.6 with -Xsource:3 support - auto imports for Scala 3 - extract class action - rename file as class action scalameta.org/metals/blog/20… Try it out with VS Code, Vim, Emacs, Sublime or Eclipse.

I got MBP with an M1 Max (max specs) and I compared my NixOS VM performance to my 2017 iMac Pro and its a bit ridiculous (the M1 Max smashes it). See some screenshots. Note: all from my VM. CPU: 7.6x faster Memory: 2.2x faster File IO: 8x faster (not fair, iMac is fusion drive).

Apache Pekko 1.0.0 has been released, see pekko.apache.org/download.html#… and pekko.apache.org/docs/pekko/cur… for more details. Its been a long road, many thanks to everyone who participated in this!