A couple of days too late for the 3rd birthday of our little darcs code forge Smederee we have a new release! 
The celebrate 3 years it is now possible to choose the darcs patch format when creating a new repository, including the v3 format (of the coming darcs release). Feel free to check it out but keep in mind that it is still considered experimental.
I am excited to welcome Haoyi Li as the speaker for our upcoming #Scala #Meetup in #SanFrancisco!
He’ll be presenting:
Solving Scala's Build Problem with the Mill Build Tool
An MIT grad and creator of the widely-used “com-lihaoyi” Scala projects (10K+ GitHub stars, 20M+ downloads/month), Li Haoyi has built core infrastructure at companies like Dropbox and Databricks. He's also the author of Hands-on Scala Programming and brings deep expertise in the JVM, Scala Programming Language, Build tools and beyond. Don’t miss this chance to learn from one of the best!
"Scala can be incredibly productive… if we stop using abstractions that offer no value!" @noelwelsh Really looking forward to watching this talk when it becomes generally available. #scala https://noelwelsh.com/talks/tagless-final-for-humans
I'd like to build some libraries that are usable across Java, Scala & Kotlin, but I also want to be free to pick my implementation language & libraries, without having to worry much about how I/O is done under the hood (i.e., Project Loom, Cats-Effect, Kotlin coroutines). So I've started a small library that helps me expose nice APIs to all devs.
A new Metals release adds a useful automatic import optimization feature. For instance, if you type Future.successful(...), only the Scala Future will be suggested, as the Java Future has no such method. #scala http://scalameta.org/metals/blog/2025/03/26/strontium/
Fun fact: Most submissions from past CfPs are submitted in the final week.
That being said, there’s just over 1 week left to submit your #Scala talk before time runs out 
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Welcome new speakers to apply
Send in your proposal, you’re in good company! 
https://www.papercall.io/scaladays
#scala got into hacker news and actually has a bunch of comments and people talking, that's surprising 
Cmon, let's convince the industry to create some more jobs, at least I know I need one 
I've updated the fs2-rabbit lib, in case anyone uses it besides us 
#scala https://github.com/profunktor/fs2-rabbit/releases/tag/v5.4.2
From: @matejcerny
https://witter.cz/@matejcerny/114223542481630565
Coursier's official prebuilt binary is hardware-shaming me. That's a first.
./cs setup
The current machine does not support all of the following CPU features that are required by the image: [CX8, CMOV, FXSR, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2, POPCNT, LZCNT, AVX, AVX2, BMI1, BMI2, FMA].
Please rebuild the executable with an appropriate setting of the -march option.Laminar & Airstream 17.2.1 bug fix release https://laminar.dev/blog/2025/03/26/laminar-v17.2.1 #scala
️ Ah, the endless #debate of Scala's evolution: should it sprint, crawl, or just stand still and sip lattes? 
Spoiler alert: the article is basically a laundry list of "maybe, could be, possibly" without actually saying anything at all! 
https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2025/03/24/evolving-scala.html #Scala #Evolution #CoffeeCulture #TechHumor #SoftwareDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
Scala is on my list of computer languages to learn, and it looks like starting with version 3 is the way to go?
I'd like to remind all #scala folks that there's a community at lemmy at https://programming.dev/c/scala
It would be helpful to have more discussions and stuff in non proprietary platforms instead of reddit and similar.
But I shouldn't complain too much. Since the implosion of twitter many people in the community finally joined the mastodon and fediverse in general which is cool 
Evolving Scala by Martin Odersky and Haoyi Li
