Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of March 15th, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- March 15, 2021
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- scala• kotlin• clojure• ocaml• 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
sbt 1.4.9
| sbt 1.4.9 is a patch release that fixes the IntelliJ import breakages. Read about the update here: sbt 1.4.9
Google Summer of Code
| The Scala Center has been accepted as a mentor organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code. Read more about it here: Scala Center at GSOC 2021
Kotlin Early Access Preview
| You can participate in the Kotlin Early Access Preview (EAP) to try out the latest Kotlin features before they are released. Learn how here: Kotlin EAP
FSML 0.3.0
| A new version of FSML, an OCaml library for describing and simulating synchronous finite state machines, was recently released. Read about version 0.3.0 here: FSML 0.3.0
Babashka SQL Pods 0.0.3
| Version 0.0.3 of Babashka SQL Pods was just released. Pods like this are used as a Clojure library by Babashka—a native Clojure interpreter for scripting. Read about version 0.3.0 here: Babashka SQL pods 0.0.3
SUGGESTED READS
How to Build Android Apps with Kotlin by Alex Forrester, Eran Boudjnah, and Jomar Tigcal
UPCOMING EVENTS
µCon
April 13th-14th, 2021
mu-con.com
ScalaCon
May 18th-21st, 2021
scalacon.org
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