Signify's Sunday Reads - 17th July 2021 Week #3

Happy Sunday! Did you miss us last week? We spent the day celebrating Signify Technology's 5th birthday!! Don't worry - we're back this week with our favorite Scala reads from the past 2 weeks!

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​About two-thirds of Wire Android code is written in Scala making it unique among Android apps. In Wire Signals, Maciej Gorywoda shares a Scala library for event streams, developed by Wire Android team. 

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In Scala 3: A Look at Inline, Dean Wamplerintroduced one of the new metaprogramming features in Scala 3, the inline keyword, and how it affects source code. In Scala 3: Macros, Wampler focuses on quoting and splicing. 

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If you haven’t gotten around to reading Functional Programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano and Runar Bjarnason, this article is for you. Sandro Maglione shares 5 Key Lessons from the book that’ll make you a better developer regardless of your programming language of choice. 

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Will Scala 3 be your new favorite language?Chris Rybarczyk shares what’s new in Scala 3 as well as an overview of some of its most interesting features. 

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In this Gentle introduction to Akka with Scala, Oto Brglez will walk you through a few practical examples and code snippets and inspire you to look deeper into concepts like Akka Streams, Alpakka, Akka Clustering, and Akka Streams.