Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of March 29th, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- March 29, 2021
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- scala• kotlin• elixir• 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
Elixir 1.11.4
| A new version of Elixir introduces fixes adding better support of Erlang/OTP 24+. Read about the changes here: Elixir 1.11.4
Scala3-migrate 0.3.1
| A tool that makes it easy to migrate to Scala 3 released its first version. Read about the Scala3-migrate tool here: Scala3-migrate 0.3.1
EduTools Plugin 2021.3
| An update to JetBrains’ EduTools plugin adds new features and fixes. Read about version 2021.3 here: EduTools Plugin 2021.3
Cats Effect 3.0.0-RC3
| Cats Effects 3.0.0-RC3 was just released. This is the final release candidate of this pure asynchronous runtime for Scala prior to version 3.0.0. Check out the release notes here: Cats Effect 3.0.0-RC3
SUGGESTED READS
Get Programming With Scala by Daniela Sfregola
UPCOMING EVENTS
µCon
April 13th-14th, 2021
mu-con.com
Scala 3 Release Party
April 23rd, 2021
scala3party.sphere.it/
ScalaCon
May 18th-21st, 2021
scalacon.org
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