Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of February 8th, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- February 08, 2021
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- kotlin• scala• swift• rust• haskell• 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
Haskell Foundation Board
| The recently formed Haskell Foundation has announced the members of its board. Read the announcement here: Haskell Foundation Board
Kotlin 1.4.30
| Kotlin 1.4.30 adds a new JVM backend, along with various performance and functional improvements. Read about this latest version here: Kotlin 1.4.30
gRPC Swift 1.0.0
| Version 1.0.0 of the gRPC Swift API and code generator was just released. Check out the release notes here: gRPC Swift 1.0.0
Swift 5.4
| The latest version of Swift adds huge compilation improvements, and introduces new features like the ability to have multiple variadic parameters in functions. Read all about this update here: Swift 5.4
Modux 1.2.2
| A new version of Modux was just released, adding major updates. Read all about the changes to this simple and lightweight microservice server for Scala here: Modux 1.2.2
SUGGESTED READS
Rust In Action by Tim McNamara
UPCOMING EVENTS
Scala Love
February 13th, 2021
inthecity.scala.love
Lambda Days 2021
February 16th-19th, 2021
lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021
IntelliJ IDEA Conf
February 25th-26th, 2021
jetbrains.com/lp/intellijidea-20-anniversary/
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