This week in #Scala (Jun 2, 2025)
Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!
This blog keeps you updated with the latest Scala and Reactive programming news.
New Content
Jonas Bonér on Akka, Distributed Systems, Open Source and Agentic AI
Making ScalaSql boring again (with interesting new internals
Drawing Heighway’s Dragon - Part 4 - Interactive and Animated Dragon Creation
Degrees of Separation: A Flexible Type System for Safe Concurrency
Visionaries, Rebels and Machines: The story of humanity’s extraordinary journey from electrification to cloudification with some Scala community mentions
Events
Announcing Scala Days 2025 (Lausanne, Switzerland, 19–21 August 2025)
Recursion Schemes & Mill with our special guest Li Haoyi, Mon, Jun 2, Scala Hamburg
Releases
Learning Materials
Get Programming with Scala by Daniela Sfregola (30% off)
Play for Scala (30% off)
Grokking Functional Programming (30% off)
Functional Programming for Mortals (pay as much as you want)
Essential Effects by Adam Rosien (20% off)
Programming in Scala, Fifth Edition
Functional Event-Driven Architecture: Powered by Scala 3 is now 100% complete
Zionomicon (code is thisweekinscala)