This week in #Scala (Mar 31, 2025)

Welcome to the new edition of #ThisWeekInScala!

This blog keeps you updated with the latest Scala and Reactive programming news.

New Content

• Evolving Scala

• Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala, Learning, Teaching and the Quest for the Perfect Language

• Scala in 2025: How to Start, What to Learn

• Tuples transformations

• Publishing ZIP artifacts with SBT

• Infrastructure as types: introducing TypeOps

Events

• Announcing Scala Days 2025 (Lausanne, Switzerland, 19–21 August 2025)

• The CfP for Scala Days 2025 is now open

• J On the Beach, May 14th - 16th, Malaga, Spain

• CFP for Lambda Days, June 12th-13th 2025, Krakow, Poland

• Scalar 2025 Early Birds!

Releases

• Scala 3.7.0-RC1 available

• Java 24 and GraalVM for JDK 24 Released

• Metals v1.5.2 - Strontium available

• New Kyo released

• etl4s 1.0.1 is out

• ScalaNullSafe 1.4.0 released

• sbt-dependency-check 1.0.0 is out

• Apache Kafka 4.0 available

• mill 0.12.9 released

• ducktape 0.2.8 is out

• scala-cli 1.7.1 released

Learning Materials

• Online Courses (MOOCs) from The Scala Center

• Functional Programming in Scala JetBrains course

• Scala 3 Metaprogramming Learning Resources

• The Functional Programming in Scala Course Is Out!

• Functional Declarative Design: A Comprehensive Methodology for Statically-Typed Functional Programming Languages

• 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)

• Supercharge Scala Future | FP-Tower (50% off)