New releases for Swift Playgrounds, Kotlin, and more FP news | Lambda World News
by Jason McClellan
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- December 20, 2021
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- swift• kotlin• sbt• gradle• scala• 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
Swift Playgrounds 4.0
| The latest version of Swift Playgrounds lets you build iPhone and iPad apps with SwiftUI right on your iPad, and it shows live updates as you make changes. See what else is new here: Swift Playgrounds
Kotlin 1.6.10
| A new version of the Kotlin programming language was recently released. This version is a bug fix release for Kotlin 1.6.0. Check out the changelog here: Kotlin 1.6.10
sbt 1.5.7
| Version 1.5.7 of sbt is a patch release that fixes a denial of service vulnerability. Read more about the latest version of this interactive build tool for Scala here: sbt 1.5.7
Gradle 7.3.2
| Gradle 7.3.2 is a patch release that fixes various problems and updates the Scala plugin to support Scala 3. Read more about the new update for this multi-language build tool here: Gradle Release Notes
SUGGESTED READS
Scala 3 Programming for Beginners: An Introduction to Learn the Scala 3 Programming Language with Tutorials and Hands-On Examples by Nathan Metzler
UPCOMING EVENTS
Lambda Days
February 10-11, 2022
lambdadays.org
Scala Love
February 11, 2022
CFP
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