Arrow 0.10.5 is now available
by Simon Vergauwen
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- April 02, 2020
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- kotlin• functional• arrow
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- 5 minutes to read.

Arrow 0.10.5 is now available. This is the last planned release for the 0.10.x
series and includes many bug fixes and a few new features which we will highlight below. Additionally, Arrow’s website and the Github project have also undergone some heavy re-reorganization.
If you’re new to Arrow, it’s a group of open-source libraries that empower pure functional programming in Kotlin.
Re-org
The mono-repo was a blocking point for the future of Arrow, and some changes couldn’t be implemented because all of the libraries were grouped as a single project. For instance, changes related to type checking.
The multi-repo organization introduces some challenges with breaking changes in several Arrow libraries that are counteracted with global checks after merging changes and a development environment to check crossed changes. However, the benefits of having Arrow’s libraries singled out will allow for the implementation of improvements in type management that will take Arrow to the next level.
Idiomatic FP in Kotlin
Our goal for Arrow is to make Functional Programming in Kotlin as user-friendly as possible. We try to do so with elegant DSLs like those you can find in Arrow Optics and Arrow Fx DSL.
In this patch release, we’ve deprecated some public APIs in favor of aligning them with names from the Kotlin Standard Library.
Arrow Core
Arrow Core, serving as the heart of Arrow, is the most stable and doesn’t include many changes. Most noteworthy are the new user-friendly Show
implementations that allow users to compose their own implementations and the deprecation of the current ap
signature.
Check the changelog for the complete list of bug fixes and improvements.
Arrow Fx
The latest release of Arrow Fx includes two brand new features:
- A lightweight async FIFO
Queue
for holding arbitrary values that works for all types that supportConcurrent
. Schedule
allows you to define and compose powerful yet straightforward policies, which can be used to either repeat or retry effects.
Both are fully documented and can be found in the Arrow Fx Docs.
Arrow Fx - KotlinX integration module
Arrow Fx now includes an integration module for KotlinX Coroutines for interoperability with structured concurrency’s CoroutineScope
.
You can learn more about that module in a post from Jorge Castillo: IO integration with kotlinx.coroutines.
Upcoming
The next minor release, 0.11.0
, will introduce
IO<E, A>, which is currently available on the
0.11.0-SNAPSHOT`.
Additionally, this reorganization allows us to more easily introduce the long-awaited Arrow Meta into Arrow.
For a full list of changes and features in 0.10.5, please visit the official changelog.
We would like to give special thanks to the following contributors for this version (in no particular order):
- 1Jajen1
- Alberto Ballano
- abendt
- Daniel Montoya
- lucmazon
- overfullstack
- Rachel Carmena
- Victor Petukhov
- Simon Vergauwen
- Antonio Mateo
- JLLeitschuh
- Javaru
- Maureen Elsberry
- PhBastiani
- Romastyi
- alphaho
- arturdryomov
- ashishkujoy
- bobkilla
- Juan Valencia
- Francisco Díaz
- Imran Settuba
- Jason McClellan
- kioba
- kylegoetz
- pakoito
- scott-christopher
For a full list of the contributors who have helped Arrow get to where it is today, please check out: Arrow Contributors. We’re always looking for additional help; please view the guidelines for contributing and take a look at the help-wanted issues. All levels are welcome, and we offer 1:1 mentoring through Arrow’s Slack and Gitter channels.
If you would like to support Arrow, but don’t have the time to invest in contributing, consider picking up some Arrow swag! All proceeds are invested back into advancing the library.
Resources:
- Arrow on Twitter
- Arrow on Gitter
- #Arrow on Kotlin Slack
- Arrow Presentations Playlist
- Functional Programming in Kotlin with Arrow web series
The active development of Arrow is proudly sponsored by 47 Degrees, a Functional Programming consultancy with a focus on the Kotlin, Scala, Haskell, and Swift programming languages.
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