Modern infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions have automated much of the cloud provisioning process, yet they still lack robust correctness guarantees, leading to costly misconfigurations and inefficiencies. TypeOps introduces the power of type systems to DevOps, enabling compile-time validation of infrastructure code, reducing errors before deployment, and ensuring more reliable and scalable cloud operations.
Companies, especially mid-sized and larger ones, face the challenge of structuring projects at scale. Arguably, almost every technology and paradigm can be used by a single developer to write a small piece of code, but obviously, this is not enough for any organization—engineering solutions must allow people from multiple disciplines to develop and maintain the application efficiently throughout the whole application lifecycle.
WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format that offers a compact and efficient way for executing code across diverse environments, including the web. Previously, Scala couldn’t directly compile to Wasm, but now Scala.js will support Wasm as its new linker backend, thanks to the collaborative efforts of the ScalaCenter and VirtusLab. This development may raise a question: why does Scala aim to compile to Wasm, and how is this achieved?
As Scala 3 maintainers, VirtusLab has big plans for this year. We have put them all together in a detailed roadmap, specifying the future of Scala 3 in 2024. Read on to learn how we intend to release new versions more often, improve reporting, and enhance the UX of Scala 3 and the tooling.
Scala 3.3.0 was released as the first Long-Term Support (LTS) version in Scala's history. Let's see what happened and what changes occured.
Scala 2 accumulated multiple amazing features that either improve the readability of the code, make it easier to write and maintain, or reduce the amount of boilerplate. Even though most of them have become an integral part of the language, some were only treated as experimental—their goal was to discover new language capabilities. Still, it was treated as a temporal and prone to change solution.
VirtusLab shows you how to build an AI app with Scala 3 & Besom from scratch.
Learn how we leveraged Scala 3's decompiler to mine compiler metadata with TASTy files, streamlining data gathering in 150 code lines.
No programming language can succeed long-term without strong stability guarantees. Scala 3 takes this seriously, giving you excellent backward output compatibility and ensuring your code will work in future versions without changes.
A sneak peek at the new scala runner, Scala CLI, including a comparison to its predecessor and a showcase of the tool.
We have compared Scala Native performance aspects and memory usage with JVM and Graal Native Image in this article.
A guide to using Bazel, an artifact-based build system, for Scala developers with an example and step-by-step instructions.
