Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of April 26th, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- April 26, 2021
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- scala• kotlin• erlang• lambda world• functional programming
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- 2 minutes to read.

Here’s a quick look from Lambda World News at some of the recent items making news in the Functional Programming community.
NEWS
Scala 3.0.0-RC3
| Scala 3.0.0-RC3 was just released to deal with critical bug fixes for 3.0.0 stable. Read about it here: Scala 3.0.0-RC3
Kotlin 1.5.0 video series
| A 4-part video series is showing off the new language features in Kotlin 1.5.0. Watch the first video here: Kotlin 1.5.0 video series
OTP 24.0-RC3
| OTP 24.0-RC3 is the last of three planned release candidates before the 24.0 release of this set of Erlang libraries. Read more about it here: OTP 24.0-RC3
Metals 0.10.2
| The release of Metals 0.10.2 adds support for Scala 3.0.0-RC3 as well other improvements to this Scala language server. Read more about this version here: Metals 0.10.2
SUGGESTED READS
Functional Programming in JavaScript by Cristian Salcescu
Introducing .NET for Apache Spark: Distributed Processing for Massive Datasets by Ed Elliott
UPCOMING EVENTS
YOW! Lambda Jam 2021
May 5th-6th, 2021
yowconference.com
ScalaCon
May 18th-21st, 2021
scalacon.org
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