Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of August 30th, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- August 30, 2021
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- kotlin• haskell• http4k• lambda world• functional programming
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- 1 minute 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
| The latest version of Kotlin includes many experimental language and standard library features that are planned for release in Kotlin 1.6.0. Read more about this version here: Kotlin 1.5.30 Is Now Available!
GHC 9.2.1-rc1
| The 9.2.1 release candidate of the The Glasgow Haskell Compiler was recently released, showing off a number of exciting features coming to GHC 9.2. Read more about this release here: GHC 9.2.1-rc1 is now available!
http4k 4.12.0.0
| The latest version of http4k upgrades some dependency versions, including Kotlin to 1.5.30. Read the changelog here: http4k 4.12.0.0 changelog
SUGGESTED READS
Java to Kotlin: A Refactoring Guidebook by Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce
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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