released tree-sitter-scala 0.24.1 and 0.25.0 featuring - `into` soft modifier - applied constructor type - `tracked` soft modifier - given with type parameters - anonymous `using` parameters eed3si9n.com/tree-sitter-... #Scala

🧪 Code coverage is a key part of maintaining high-quality Scala projects. We've recently made progress on making Scoverage more robust, expanding the way we test it, discovering and fixing new issues. Read more:

The Typelevel Foundation was determined to be a 501(c)(3) public charity! This is a testament to the intellectual merit and educational value of our community's contributions to functional programming. Congratulations! typelevel.org/blog/charity...

The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

The results of the 2025 State of Rust Survey are now available! 📊 blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2...

🛠️ sbt 2 is nearing stable release - let’s migrate the plugin ecosystem together! The new sbt2-compat plugin was developed by the Scala Center to simplify cross-building sbt plugins for sbt 1 and sbt 2. Learn more on how to migrate:

released sbt 1.12.5, featuring - updated sbtn, which can relay errors when sbt server fails to start - backport of sbt runner script fixes eed3si9n.com/sbt-1.12.5 #Scala

> Their perspective was recently documented in the sbt 1.12.3 release notes “Smørrebrød - the end of Scala 2.13-3.x sandwich”. lol > Scala 3 consuming Scala 2.13 artifacts will remain supported for the foreseeable future. 👍

Just out now: @mirandaheath.website’s post about maintainer burnout, summarizing her newly published study on the topic… 1/2

spread this at work as well since not everyone checks social media for programming content

If you're interested in Scala 2 and Scala 3 compatibility, what TASTy is, and how it fits into the whole story, take a look at this blog post by Wojciech Mazur. scala-lang.org/blog/state-...

⛄ released sbt 1.12.4, featuring - an `sbt` runner script bug fix - a `scalaOrganization` bug fix eed3si9n.com/sbt-1.12.4 #Scala

Alpha School, an "AI-powered" private school that costs as much as $65k a year, is generating faulty lesson plans and stealing content from textbooks for training data www.404media.co/students-are...

祝大家新年进步, 恭喜发财, 一帆风顺, 身体健康 🧧 a prosperous and healthy Lunar New Year, to those celebrating!

👩‍🔬 sbt 2.0.0-RC9 is released! sbt 2.0 is a new version of sbt, based on Scala 3 constructs and Bazel-compatible cache system RC9 is a big change, featuring - JDK 17 + Scala 3.8.1 in metabuild - Maven BOM (Bill of Materials) usage support eed3si9n.com/sbt-2.0.0-RC9 #Scala (1/n)

💘 released sbt 1.12.3, featuring the end of Scala 2.13-3.x bilateral interoperability (aka Scala 2.13-3.x sandwich) while it's popular to discuss the topography of hot dogs and tacos, an oft overlooked sandwich is Wawa hoagie, which is cut only on one-side eed3si9n.com/sbt-1.12.3 #Scala

truly a rockstar building Apache Spark in the open. congrats all around!

The best way to start a Monday morning might be to get some @scalar-conf.com tickets - just over a month away! Make new friends, meet old friends, find out how #Scala might fit into the #AI ecosystem with trustworthy agents - an opening talk by Martin Odersky, and much more!

🚀 Join us at the Wrocław Scala User Group Meetup (#17) on Feb 24 in Wrocław! 📍 Where: Hard Rock Cafe Wrocław, ul. Rynek 25 📅 When: Tuesday, Feb 24 • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CET 👉 RSVP here: www.meetup.com/wroclaw-sca... See you there! 👋 #Scala #Meetup #Wroclaw #TechCommunity #SoftwareEngineering

wrote 'sbt 1.12.1 and unmoored scala-reflect / scala-compiler issue' contributors.scala-lang.org/t/sbt-1-12-1... #scala

released sbt 1.12.2, featuring - improvement of forking interactive programs - sbtn with the above change, which should improves client-side run eed3si9n.com/sbt-1.12.2 #Scala

Postmortem on Scala 3.8.0: www.scala-lang.org/blog/post-m.... We are also working on a 3.8.2 release which will include a fix for scala/scala3#24673, which can cause some for comprehensions to behave incorrectly at runtime.

By the way I am taking lead on the Scala standard library project and am open here for suggestions on what we should be working on - the sky is the limit! Or find the contributors forum post.

happy to announce that along with Scala library, compiler, sbt 2.0 project has been awarded Sovereign Tech Fund (German gov grant), recognized as a critical digital infrastructure, or an xkcd open source picture scala-lang.org/blog/2026/01... #Scala

The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala: 🔐 security audits 🔧 sbt 2.0 📚 core library maintenance 💪 and long-term resilience for critical digital infrastructure Check out the announcement: www.scala-lang.org/b... 🙏 Huge thanks to @sovereign.tech

released sbt 1.12.1, featuring the fix for scala-reflect not found problem on Scala 3.8.1 eed3si9n.com/sbt-1.12.1 #Scala

wrote a blog post - 'sbt and the miners of the wild west' eed3si9n.com/sbt-and-the-... #Scala

ping your senators Hi, I'm writing/calling to urge Sen <senator> to impeach Kristi Noem as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE's human rights abuses under her leadership is a threat to everyone living in the United States. Thank you for consideration. Sincerely, <your name>

released Eval 0.3.2, a little #Scala 3 interpreter, with Scala 3.8.1 support eed3si9n.com/eval-0.3.2

Scala 3.8 is here! A major release modernising the ecosystem and paving the way for Scala 3.9 LTS. Highlights: - Standard library compiled by Scala 3 - Better Fors & runtimeChecked stabilized - New experimental features - Update to JDK 17+ 🧵 Let's dive in...

'RFC: sbt 2.0 on JDK 17' On behalf of the sbt project, I would like to solicit your feedback on the minimum JDK version required for sbt 2.0 users.scala-lang.org/t/rfc-sbt-2-... #Scala

Scala Days talk on sbt 2.0

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

🔍 Some systems run on rules nobody ever writes down. This session explores how to model and implement those unspoken rules using Scala 3. Watch "Coding the game of unspoken rules in Scala 3" from Adrien Piquerez and Benoît Fouré

TIL about Gittensor, an open source bounty system, dressed up as a crypto "subnet" of something called Bittensor, which produces daily rewards, and Gittensor splits them 18% to its owner, 41% validators, and 41% to "miners", which apparently amounts to $75k/month gittensor.io

an nyt editorial > Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021. Recognizing as much is necessary to bring this era to an end before it has many more anniversaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

I regret to report that I'm back to customizing my fonts. This one's an opinionated derivation of Iosevka's take on IBM Plex. And it has its own site. https://cromulent-fonts.rossabaker.com/ #fonts #iosevka #ibmplex

🎍 sbt 2.0.0-RC8 is released! sbt 2.0 is a new version of sbt, based on Scala 3 constructs and Bazel-compatible cache system - RC8 shows warning when scalaVersion is missing - RC8 returns metabuild sources in BSP - RC8 fixes managed resource handling eed3si9n.com/sbt-2.0.0-RC8 #Scala

🎍 released sbt 1.12.0, featuring - Scala 3.8 REPL support - `dependencyTree` to show `Provided` deps eed3si9n.com/sbt-1.12.0 #Scala

🎍明けましておめでとうございます starting the new year with a bowl of vegan ozouni rice cake soup (like tteokguk)

Well, I think recent data suggests ~90% chance that BA.3.2 will quickly take over and replace the BA.2.86 (Pirola) lineages that dominated for more than 2 years. 50-80% weekly advantage noted in Euorpe in recent months is convincing that it's turned a corner

🌲 released sbt 1.2.0-RC1, featuring - Scala 3.8 REPL support - dependencyTree to show Provided deps eed3si9n.com/sbt-1.12.0-RC1 #Scala

🎛️ made 'chikhzen'ni (2025.12 mixtape)', 4h assortment of glitchy electronica and dub techno for the winter walks if you find the tracks you like, consider supporting the artists on bandcamp by getting vinyls - track list: eed3si9n.com/2025.12-mixt... - YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Safe resource usage is coming to #Scala! Scala 3.8 is just around the corner (you can test 3.8.0-RC3) - it's a great occasion to try out capture checking. But first, you have to understand how it works - here's my attempt: softwaremill.com/understandin...

making bad dub techno etude 0001 eed3si9n.com/december-adv... loops.video/v/cmcpmytk-e #decemberadventure day 1

🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed! After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone! Spread the word!

🦃 during sbt 2.0.0-RC7 development, I attempted some perf improvement to fix the no-op compilation perf regression that was reported. since RC7 is out, I can finally post 'sudori part 8: no-op compilation performance' (didn't write this on Thanksgiving) eed3si9n.com/sudori-part8... #Scala

from #Scala Days 2025 edition, 'sbt 2.0: go big' www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM2y... (video) www.slideshare.net/slideshow/sb...

Metals 1.6.4 has just been release and as always it brings bug fixes as well as a number of general improvements. Take a look at the release notes for details: scalameta.org/metals/blog... #Scala

Scala Days talks are live! I can finally refer to my hot takes by timestamps www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkUV...