“Choose Boring Technology”

I entirely agree if you want to actually ship. Learning takes a back seat. For me, the boring, reliable, predictable tech is #Scala + FP (mostly Typelevel, Lightbend, SoftwareMill stuff) and PostgreSQL 🤷‍♂️

mcfunley.com/choose-boring-tec…

Choose Boring Technology

^{Dan McKinley :: Math, Programming, and Minority Reports}

Well, I did something.

Written some ramblings about #scala and the syntax/way to write typeclasses.

Just the start. Basically notes to myself, but maybe useful for others eventually.

I should turn this into some blog post or put it into a personal wiki or wtv. But ain't nobody got time for that.

So just a bunch of code, hosted in codeberg (gotta start using it more), with a bunch of comments intended to be read from top to bottom.

That's all folks

codeberg.org/vascorsd/scala3-e…

#fp

scala3-examples/typeclass-1.scala at main

scala3-examples - Some scala3 code examples, with some ramblings and exploration of what's possible.

^Codeberg.org

In general the official #scala API docs are very very lacking and generally suck.

Methods have barely any description on them. There are no examples in most methods to understand them. Important methods and collections lack explanation of their characteristics related to performance, runtime, O notations of each etc. Barely describe where each is more appropriate vs others, etc.

🫣

I was pointed out yesterday to scodec for #scala. It has some important things there that seem very useful and will likely use it.

It's just pretty sad that such a known, useful, stable library has most of the site with incomplete docs, broken links and incomplete released version numbers.

Example:
- incomplete docs: from this on scodec.org/guide/Collections.h…
- scodec.org/api/ scodec-protocols 1.2.0 link broken; versions on the page are not latest and you need to check github

🫣

Jon Pretty wins in court against sexual harassment claims by Scala community

Link: pretty.direct/statement.html
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

#scala

Martin Odersky's thoughts on "Lean Scala"

What do you think? #Scala

odersky.github.io/blog/2024-04…

I delivered my talk on "Elements of JVM Concurrency" 😸

Link to slides (PDF): alexn.org/assets/pdfs/Scalar-2…

#ScalarConf #Scala

Apache Pekko has left the incubator phase and is now a top-level project.

lists.apache.org/thread/grl5h0…

That's great news! Pekko was created as a Fork of Akka 2.6, right after Lightbend chose to pull a bait-and-switch by relicensing Akka to a non-FOSS license.

I have already switched to Pekko a few months ago, it went very smooth, and I am grateful to everybody involved in making this happen.

#opensource #pekko #akka #scala #java #licensing #apache #foss

“Scala's Future”

Gather around, kids, let me tell you two stories from my past in the software industry.

alexn.org/blog/2024/01/10/scal…

#Blog #Scala #Scala3

Scala's Future

On programming and personal projects

^{Alexandru Nedelcu}

Initial release of http4s-otel4s-middleware:

github.com/http4s/http4s-otel4…

#Scala #OpenTelemetry #http4s #otel4s

Release v0.1.0 · http4s/http4s-otel4s-middleware

Initial release. This is a fork of natchez-http4s-otel, with Otel4s replacing Natchez. It is compatible with otel4s-0.3.x and http4s-0.23.x. New Contributors @rossabaker made their first contrib...

^GitHub

Since other people are discussing these things, always a good reminder that on #scala using cats-effect library and using #FunctionalProgramming these thing are properly abstracted away nowadays and on daily usage one finally barely has to care at all about it. - typelevel.org/cats-effect/docs…

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Two kinds of threads pools, and why you need both | Lobsters - lobste.rs/s/k8knw4/two_kinds_t…

#programming

Two kinds of threads pools, and why you need both

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^lobste.rs