sideeffffect

6 ms·

1.
by sideeffffect 2mo ago
The official VS Code extension from Oracle with an LSP server: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Oracle.o...
2.
by sideeffffect 3mo ago
If you're interested in this, then you should check out https://github.com/golemcloud/golem Golem is a durable workflow platform and can run any wasm.
3.
by sideeffffect 7mo ago
Or maybe you can solve it like I did -- by using a font that does the (IMHO) right thing with regards to ligatures https://github.com/0xType/0xProto#4-ligatures-that-dont-defo... I can't recommend 0xProto enough,
4.
by sideeffffect 8mo ago
React Native Skia seems abandoned. But maybe this will make React Native on Linux viable https://github.com/gtkx-org/gtkx
5.
by sideeffffect 8mo ago
https://reactnative.dev/docs/out-of-tree-platforms says otherwise React Native Skia allegedly runs on Linux too
6.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
If you'd like to see Bob Harper's take on programming languages, have a look at the short video series Practical Foundations for Programming Languages https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0DsGHMPLUWVy9PjI9jOS...
7.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
How does programming with Clojure targeting multiple platforms (JVM, JS, CLR, LLVM, ...) work? Are there Clojure libraries that don't use JVM(/JS/...)-specific stuff that works on any Clojure platform/dialect? Can such l
8.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
https://dotty-bench.epfl.ch/
9.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
I doubt it. For Capture Catching of Capabilities to work, you need some of the unique sauce practically only Scala has. E.g. Contextual functions or path-dependent types. Java almost certainly won't adopt these.
10.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
The first five points are fixed by using Mill https://mill-build.org/mill/comparisons/why-mill.html#_perfo...
11.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
Go has proven that people want cheap threads. If it didn't have it, it wouldn't get anywhere. Now even Java has cheap threads (Loom). And Go even has generics. Just 20-ish years later than Java. And it's likely that more feat
12.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
All these languages may work very well for many people for the described use cases. But one of Scala's strength is versatility. You could use it quite well for all the listed use cases too. With just one language. (Maybe with the excep
13.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
> But something happened Oracle started heavily investing into Java. And Google picked Kotlin as the language for Android. But Scala hasn't stagnated since. And as the blog post suggest, plans on moving further still. For example,
14.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
> Compile times are crazy This is also heavily influenced by the build too you use. Don't use sbt or Maven or Gradle. Use the good stuff. Use Mill. https://mill-build.org/mill/comparisons/why-mill.html#_per
15.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
I think the proprietary variant of GraalVM comes with more optimizations in the compiler. But the AOT compilation (native-image) is available in the GPL community variant.
16.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
> Kotlin is also much more popular than Scala. That's not what (at least some) numbers say. Both Scala and Kotlin are 14th. https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/09/12/language-rankings-6-2... Kotlin
17.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
Probably never. It's very slow to move. Yes, Java has been getting a lot of features Scala has had since (more or less) always. But it's a continuing process, and not all such features are yet fully fleshed out and polished in Jav
18.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
> > Another common request is to “stop implementing features”. > Yes, it's a very common one shared by virtually all Scala 3 developers. Stop. At least for a couple of years. I, for one, think Capture Catching can't arriv
19.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
> 1) The language is too unstable Thankfully not anymore. They got their act together and have been maintaining compatibility since Scala 3.0.0 has been released in May 2021, which is almost 4 years and counting. https://githu
20.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
* Immutable-first * Immutable/persistent collections in standard library * Machinery to "modify" immutable deeply nested case classes/sealed traits. You have the copy method, you have lens libraries. Very easy and comfor
21.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
I think it's actually used more to develop more or less ordinary backends. Or some tools/frameworks like Spark or Akka/Pekko. But you can (and people mostly do) use Spark from Python. And Akka/Pekko from Java (but I&#x27
22.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
> Clojurescript for frontend, Rust for portability If Clojure and Rust work well for you, more power to you. But at least in theory, you could very well use just Scala for these purposes Scala can compile to JS https://www.sca
23.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
> Shapeless breaks everything so casually. Thank goodness that Shapeless is not needed in Scala 3. The good parts have been integrated into the language itself and so it's reliable and faster. > Jetbrains had completely abandoned
24.
by sideeffffect 1y ago
Java has certainly improved. Kudos to its stewards. But I think it still has many rough edges -- things that are awkward (or outright impossible) to do in Java and Scala is great. It doesn't have to be advanced features, like meta-prog
25.
by sideeffffect 2y ago
Very interesting. Have you already investigated where is Mill's overhead spent? What can be optimized in Mill to get its time closer to just invoking the javac? Do you already have a plan?
26.
by sideeffffect 2y ago
Why is it ./mill common.compile and ./mill clean common but not ./mill common.clean ?
27.
by sideeffffect 2y ago
I see. But no hope is lost! You can always lean on Scala. It runs fine on any Java >= 8 and it's great. Unless you intentionally used is badly (but you could say that about any language).
28.
by sideeffffect 2y ago
> Java is generally fine enough, but it's a little annoying when I have to do whacky workarounds with wrapper classes to get something that would be done in three lines This is a weird take, given that Java has had ADTs for years Re
29.
by sideeffffect 2y ago
People are already working on this https://leandojo.org/ https://machine-learning-for-theorem-proving.github.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ew0BrRm_I https://paperswithcod
30.
by sideeffffect 2y ago
I don't mean to be snarky in any way. I think this is actually great development. But isn't this just good old inversion of control, modularity with maybe some inspiration from Functional Programming. Or even more generally, good

More ›