Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines
by Jason McClellan
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- January 25, 2021
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- kotlin• scala• rust• swift• akka• 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 Native 0.4.0
| A new version of Scala Native adds support for Scala 2.12 and 2.13. Read about the changes here: Scala Native 0.4.0
Kotlin Multiplatform Survey
| The results of the first Kotlin Multiplatform Survey have been published. Explore the results here: Kotlin Multiplatform Survey results
Rustdoc Team Changes
| Membership changes to the Rustdoc team have brought improvements to this document generation tool for Rust projects. Check out the release notes here: Changes to the Rustdoc team
Swift HTTP Structured Headers
| A pre-release of Swift HTTP Structured Headers was announced. Read all about this open source package here: Introducing Swift HTTP Structured Headers
Akka 2.6.11
| A new patch release of Akka (a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications for Java and Scala) was just released. Read about the improvements and bug fixes here: Akka 2.6.11
SUGGESTED READS
Essential Effects by Adam Rosien
UPCOMING EVENTS
Domain Driven Design Europe 2021
February 4th-5th, 2021
dddeurope.com
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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