My last day drinking "Madeira Libre". 🥃 I briefly checked what happened while I was hiking, and it looks like I have a lot of reading to do! Not gonna lie, I'm not sure if I'll start next week on a positive note.

No Scala content this week as I'm hiking in Madeira. 🇵🇹 One note though - it's impossible to rent an EV here, so we went with a petrol Skoda. It is amazing how a "brand new" 2025 model car feels like ancient technology.

Reading the new Scala concurrency proposal. To me, it feels like it's going against the majority of the ecosystem. Instead of building parallel worlds and restarting the language yet again, I'd rather see a truly monadic Future that interoperates seamlessly with the FP stack. I'm not convinced direct style is actually simpler. You are just trading flatMap chains for Context Functions and Givens. And the functions are still colored, just with a different shade. Please, let Scala be Scala. Don't try to make it Go. Happy to be proven wrong, though. #scala

In sbt 2.0, --client mode becomes the standard. But you should be using it today. ☝️ It spins up the server in the background, so you don't even need a separate terminal window with sbt open. (Unless you're obsessed with memory control like me 😀) #Scala

Finally... a sane way to work with Jira! #Claude

And yes, this release also includes initial debugging support! 🐞

Testing in Zed is finally seamless with the newest version of the Scala plugin! 🎉 Basic tasks and test buttons now work straight out of the box. No setup required. Watch it in action 👇 #scala

Good engineering teams own their mistakes. What went wrong with the initial release of Scala 3.8 and how the compiler team fixed it in such a short time? Detailed breakdown 👇 #scala https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/post-mortem-3.8.0.html

Scala tooling has definitely rough edges, but name me a single ecosystem where the dependency bot can seamlessly update your dependencies, rewrite the codebase to match the newer API, and send a green PR? I'm talking about Scala Steward + Scalafix rules, of course. 🚀 #scala

Big shoutout to the German tax payers for funding the future of Scala! 🇩🇪💸 The budget won't only go to the Standard Library, but will also impact the tooling we use daily: 📊 scoverage ⚙️ sbt 2.0 Danke schön! https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2026/01/27/sta-invests-in-scala.html #scala