Lambda World News | Functional Programming Headlines for the week of May 3rd, 2021
by Jason McClellan
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- May 03, 2021
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- scala• haskell• swift• 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 5.4
| The newly released Swift 5.4 includes a variety of language and tooling improvements. Read the release notes here: Swift 5.4
sbt 1.5.1
| sbt 1.5.1—a patch release for this open-source build tool for Scala and Java—is out now. Read the release notes here: sbt 1.5.1
Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation
| Facebook has committed to sustaining and growing the Rust language by joining the Rust Foundation. Read about it here: Facebook joins the Rust Foundation
GHC 9.2.1-alpha2
| The second alpha release in the 9.2.1 series of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler was recently released. Read more about it here: GHC 9.2.1-alpha2
SUGGESTED READS
Advanced Analytics with PySpark by Akash Tandon,Sandy Ryza, Uri Laserson, Sean Owen, and Josh Wills
UPCOMING EVENTS
YOW! Lambda Jam 2021
May 5th-6th, 2021
yowconference.com
ScalaCon
May 18th-21st, 2021
scalacon.org
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