Scala Highlights, June 2025 edition

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Welcome to the second edition of Scala Highlights, a newsletter showcasing technical achievements, online resources, and community news.

The newsletter is a joint effort by the Scala Center, LAMP, Akka, and VirtusLab, the four core organizations involved in the Scala language development. It also covers our collaborations with other parties, such as the Scala Center’s advisory board.

A few of the highlights covered in this issue:

• Scala Days 2025
• Scalar 2025
• JDK 17 will be the next minimum version required from Scala 3.8 onwards
• Scala 3.9 will be the new LTS
• Better fors and -preview features
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Scala
• Scalafmt now builds with Scala Native

Community and events

Scala Days 2025

The 12th edition of Scala Days is around the corner. It will take place August 17-19 in Lausanne, Switzerland. This year, the conference theme is “Functional Programming and the Real World”. The event will feature keynotes from Evan Czaplicki (creator of Elm), Martin Odersky (lead designer of Scala), and Ralf Jung (Rust core-team member), followed by four tracks across two days, bringing over fifty speakers to the stage. That is the most comprehensive tour of the Scala ecosystem yet.

Before the main conference, we will begin the week with two-day hands-on workshops. Scala newcomers will have the opportunity to participate in ScalaBridg...

Get the full details here: Scala Highlights, June 2025 edition | The Scala Programming Language