Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of March 1st, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- March 01, 2021
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- scala• kotlin• haskell• 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
Kotlin 1.4.31
| JetBrains released Kotlin 1.4.31 on February 26th, adding several bug fixes. Read about the update here: Kotlin 1.4.31
Metals v0.10.0
| Version 0.10.0 of the Scala language server Metals was recently released. Read about this latest version here: Metals v0.10.0
Jetpack Compose 1.0.0-beta01
| The Android development team released Jetpack Compose 1.0.0-beta01 on February 24th. Read about this version here: Jetpack Compose 1.0.0-beta01
Scala 2.13.5
| Scala version 2.13.5 was recently released, adding support for Scala 3.0.0-RC1. Check out the release notes here: Scala 2.13.5
Haskell Language Server 1.0.0
| The Haskell Language Server has reached version 1.0.0. Read all about the latest version of this GHC-oriented implementation of the LSP here: Haskell Language Server 1.0.0
SUGGESTED READS
Data-Oriented Programming by Yehonathan Sharvit
UPCOMING EVENTS
Code Beam V America
March 10th-12th, 2021
codesync.global/conferences
ScalaCon
May 18th-21st, 2021
scalacon.org
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