Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of August 9th, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- August 09, 2021
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- scala• kotlin• haskell• 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
Scala.js 1.7.0
| Scala.js 1.7.0 fixes lots of bugs and upgrades the Scala standard library to versions 2.12.14 and 2.13.6. Read more about the latest version of this Scala to JavaScript compiler here: Announcing Scala.js 1.7.0
Compose Multiplatform 1.0.0
| Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web (with versioning now aligned under the Compose Multiplatform umbrella) have been promoted to Alpha. Read the latest about this reactive Desktop and Web UI framework for Kotlin here: Compose Multiplatform goes Alpha
Haskell Language Server 1.3.0
| The latest update for the Haskell Language Server includes new features and binaries for GHC 9.0.1. Read about all the changes here: HLS 1.3.0
ReSharper C++ 2021.2
| Type Conversion Hints, Immutability Inspections, and Inline Function are some of what’s new in ReSharper C++ 2021.2. Read all about the latest version of this Visual Studio Extension for C++ Developers here: What’s New in ReSharper C++
SUGGESTED READS
The Programmer’s Brain by Felienne Hermans
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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