Golden Literal Testing in uTest 0.9.0

uTest is a small unit testing library I maintain that aims for simplicity and convenience. This blog post explores the Golden testing feature newly-added in uTest 0.9.0: why it is necessary, what it does, and how it works internally. This feature was inspired by the Jane Street blog post "What if writing tests was a joyful experience".
Li Haoyi (@li_haoyi)

Nussknacker integration with Functional Programming

I'll present how we leveraged functional programming principles while building Nussknacker - low-code visual tool baked in Poland for domain experts to build, run and monitor real-time decision algorithms instead of implementing them in the code.
Piotr Rudnicki

Type-safe vibe-coding a CRUD application

Given a CRUD application template (or better, let's call it a microservice template), how will an LLM fare adding a fridge-content-management feature? Will it be able to follow the patterns laid out in the app? Starring: Cursor IDE, Claude 4 Sonnet, Bootzooka template, JVM 21, Virtual Threads, blocking direct-style programming, Scala+Tapir on the backend, TypeScript+React on the frontend. Bonus: see the Scala Metals and context7 MCPs servers in action, accompanied by instant compiler feedback - which really helps out the LLM during development!
Adam Warski (@adamwarski)

Metals 1.6.1

SQL highlighting, Model Context Protocol improvements, updates to fuzzy matcher logic, new X-ray inlay hints, and more!
Metals contributors

LLM4s Dev Hour – Sundays @ 9am London Time

Just finished another great hour of mob programming. We’re now doing this every Sunday — 60 minutes of live coding, debugging, and learning together in public.
LLM4s

Scala Days, Aug 19th - 21st, Lausanne, Switzerland

Leaders from Scala User Groups and global communities, students, and language contributors will gather to discuss academic research, use cases, and visionary projects for a two-day, action-packed event.
Scala Days (@scaladays)

The Scala Workshop, Oct 13th, Singapore

The Scala Workshop is the continuation of the Scala Symposium, providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the design, implementation, and applications of the Scala programming language. Topics include language features, compiler internals, type systems, libraries, tools, and industrial applications.
EPFL

DEVJVM, Oct 25th, Barranquilla, Colombia

A conference uniting Java, Kotlin, and Scala developers.
DEVJVM

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