Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of June 14th, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- June 14, 2021
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- swift• scala• ghc• lambda world• functional programming
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- 1 minute 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 concurrency
| At its WWDC, Apple announced concurrency support for the Swift language. Read all about it here: Meet Swift Concurrency
Scala 3.0.1-RC1
| A new Scala release candidate continues the work on making the compiler even more stable. Read more about this release here: Scala 3.0.1-RC1.
GHC 8.10.5
| Version 8.10.5 of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler was recently released. Read about it here: GHC 8.10.5 is now available
SUGGESTED READS
Programmer’s Guide To Kotlin, Second Edition by Mike James
UPCOMING EVENTS
Elixir Wizards |> Conference
June 16th-17th, 2021
smartlogic.io
Scale By The Bay
October 28th-29th, 2021
www.scale.bythebay.io
ScalaCon
November 2nd-5th, 2021
scalacon.org
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