Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of July 19th, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- July 19, 2021
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- kotlin• metals• scala• 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
Metals v0.10.5
| The recent release of Metals v0.10.5 adds Scala 3.0.1 support and lots of fixes to this Scala language server. Read about this version here: Metals v0.10.5 - Tungsten
Kotlin 1.5.21
| Kotlin 1.5.21 was recently released, bringing bug fixes and minor improvements. Read about this version here: Kotlin 1.5.21
Witch
| Witch is a new library making it easy to convert a Haskell value from one type to another. Read all about it here: Cast Haskell values with Witch
Monocle 3
| The Monocle optics library for Scala has reached version 3.0.0. This release adds a new focus macro and lots of other additions and improvements. Read more about the new version here: Monocle 3
SUGGESTED READS
Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack: Build Better, Safer Android Apps by Michael Fazio
UPCOMING EVENTS
Haskell Love
September 10th, 2021
haskell.love
Scale By The Bay
October 28th-29th, 2021
www.scale.bythebay.io
ScalaCon
November 2nd-5th, 2021
scalacon.org
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