<story><title>Scala 2.13 is now available</title><url>https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.13.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amzans</author><text>I work at a major online fashion aggregator and my team uses Scala extensively for our search API (with Twitter&amp;#x27;s Finatra) and also in several of our data pipeline systems (Akka, Spark).&lt;p&gt;When I joined a few years ago, I was honestly not most excited about working with Scala, but the more I got into it, the more I realised that Scala got a lot of things just right.&lt;p&gt;In particular, I really miss working with the collections and futures API whenever I switch to another language.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s overall a pretty good package: very predictable behaviour, easy to debug (IntelliJ Idea helps a lot here), fast runtime and high quality libraries available for pretty much anything you might need.</text></comment>
<story><title>Scala 2.13 is now available</title><url>https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2.13.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgellow</author><text>&amp;gt; We are delighted to announce the availability of Scala 2.13!&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The 2.13.0 release improves Scala in the following areas:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; - Collections: Standard library collections have been overhauled for simplicity, performance, and safety. This is the centerpiece of the release.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; - Standard library: Future is faster and more robust. Elsewhere, useful classes and methods have been added.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; - Language: Literal types, partial unification, by-name implicits, more.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; - Compiler: 5-10% faster, deterministic output, improved optimizer.&lt;p&gt;Full release note here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;scala&amp;#x2F;scala&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v2.13.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;scala&amp;#x2F;scala&amp;#x2F;releases&amp;#x2F;tag&amp;#x2F;v2.13.0&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>