The final @ScalaBridgeLON , before the summer break, is this Thursday at Elsevier: . If you're a regular, or it's your first-time, this is a great time to come along, meet fellow programmers, and write some code.

Even Zig is getting into the effect system game! I think effect systems are a very nice approach, so it's good to see them in a low-level language. Do they know they are implementing an effect system? I feel that Zig likes to reinvent the wheel.

One norm in Elm that I strongly disagree with is working with very long files (thousands of lines). I've been trying to work with a 3000+ line file and I just can't do it effectively. The functionality I'm working on is lost in the noise.

RT @velvetbaldmime: It was great fun to present at London Scala User Group, talking about modern CLI covenants as I see them, and using Sca….

"Complexity", In programming circles, is an largely meaningless phrase that we use to hit each other with. Don't like something? It's too complex. The reason doesn't really matter, though often the core is just "this isn't something I learned in school".

It's official. LaTeX is dead to me. It's all about Typst now. if you want to know more.

RT @ScalaIO_FR: Hello folks 👋 . ScalaIO is back for another edition in 2025 🥳 . 🌐 It will be held at La Grande Crypte, Paris 🇫🇷 on the 17/1….

I'm giving this workshop at Scala Days, which will cover most of the techniques I've learned over the last 15 years of building software in typed FP. Happy to answer any questions about the workshop (which will draw from the book I'm writing: .

RT @ScalaBridgeLON: Last Thursday we started our summer term with a great session at SiriusXM. Next session is online on the 8th of May:. h….

RT @ScalaTimes: ScalaTimes issue 580 powered by @avinder42 @baccata64 @lukasz_bialy @noelwelsh @scala_js and others!.

RT @ScalaBridgeLON: We are back this Thursday for the start of our summer term, hosted by SiriusXM. Join us to improve at programming and f….

RT @matej_cerny: Resharing for the third time as @noelwelsh recently finished the chapter about the "user friendly" tagless final encoding.….

Scalar was a lot of fun and I saw some great talks (you should check out the Youtube channel!). If the content below is interesting to you, I have expanded on it the current draft of my book "Functional Programming Strategies", which is at

RT @li_haoyi: Talking about build tools at the Boston Java meetup next Monday 21 April. Come by if you are free!.

RT @li_haoyi: Will be giving a talk about JVM build tooling at the Seattle Java User Group, Thursday April 24. Come by if you're interested….

Finished the chapter on tagless final in "Functional Programming Strategies" and it's available online: . This includes the new encoding I talked about at @scalarconf . Sign up to the mailing list on the same site if you want to hear about updates.

RT @ScalaBridgeLON: This week, in addition to our usual programming, we will have track working on talk proposals for Scala Days:. https://….

RT @Krever01: Slides to grab here:

RT @arosien: @noelwelsh @scalarconf i put the code from the slides into a gist, along with an example interpreter .

RT @velvetbaldmime: Loved the pure theatre slide. In the current state of things (monix abandoned, zio being a walled garden, CE3 putting a….