Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of August 16th, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- August 16, 2021
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- kotlin• swift• rust• 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
Kotlin 1.5.30-RC
| Kotlin’s 1.5.30 release candidate features Java Toolchains in Gradle, JS IR Backend in Beta, improvements to the standard library, and more. Read all about it here: Kotlin 1.5.30-RC
Gradle 7.2-rc-3
| Gradle 7.2-rc-3 was recently announced, adding usability improvements and other changes to this open-source build automation tool. Read more about it here: Gradle Release Notes
http4k 4.11.0.1
| The latest release of http4k contains a fix for http4k-graphql. Check out the changelog here: http4k changelog
AppCode 2021.2
| AppCode 2021.2 adds Swift 5.4 support, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile plugin, and more. Read more about the latest version of this smart IDE for iOS/macOS development here: What’s New in AppCode 2021.2
SUGGESTED READS
Get Programming with Scala by Daniela Sfregola
Hands-on Rust by Herbert Wolverson
UPCOMING EVENTS
Haskell Love
September 10th, 2021
haskell.love
RustConf
September 14th, 2021
rustconf.com
Scale By The Bay
October 28th-29th, 2021
www.scale.bythebay.io
ScalaCon
November 2nd-5th, 2021
scalacon.org
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