Lorenzo Gabriele

@lolgab
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Computer Engineer passionate about Scala (JS/Native), guitar, audio and coffee.
Author of SNUnit.
OSS maintainer and contributor.
Software Engineer at @codacy

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Just fucking pop already

Is your company currently hiring for a role that includes using Rust?

Reply with a link to the opening and any relevant context.

If you're not, we'd appreciate a repost for visibility

#rust #rustlang #programming

Why give an LLM a dynamically typed language when you could give it a real type system and a compiler that tells it exactly what's wrong? That's the bet behind Tapir, where an endpoint is a value and the compiler guarantees your API, client and docs all agree. Part 1 is up: https://gilwath.com/articles/build_a_rest_api_scala_part1.html

#scala #tapir #functionalprogramming

Building a Typesafe API in Scala with Tapir - Part 1: Defining Endpoints

In the age of AI, expressive languages and libraries that provide compile-time guarantees matter more than ever, and that's exactly why Tapir and Scala shine.

Functional Programmer in Motion

🛠️ sbt 2.0.0 is released

sbt 2.0 is a new major series of sbt, based on Scala 3 constructs and Bazel-compatible cache system. many thanks to Scala Center, Anatolii Kmetiuk (new maintainer), Adrien Piquerez (alumni), and other volunteers like Kenji Yoshida
https://eed3si9n.com/sbt-2.0.0 #Scala

A bit late on this but Lift 4 (Scala 3 support) has been released!
https://github.com/lift/framework/releases/tag/4.0.0-release
Release Lift Framework 4.0.0 · lift/framework

The Lift Committers are pleased to announce the final release of Lift 4. This release includes a number of changes targeted at slimming down the framework and optimizing for something that is maint...

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@nswigger @failedLyndonLaRouchite

3) The AI bubble crashes the US economy so badly that there's hyperinflation on the US dollar and $3.4 T is roughly the cost of a small loaf of bread in 2040.

I do wonder if this is the goal for a load of the datacenter investors: buying a load of land and so on as fixed-interest bond debt and pushing inflation up so much that inflation is much higher than the interest rate so that the debt evaporates.

Student: “So Elon Musk is a trillionaire?”
Me: “Yup.”
Student: “How did he get that much money?”
Me: “Well, he doesn’t really have a trillion dollars cash. He just owns a lot of stock in companies that are valued at a trillion dollars.”
Student: “So those companies make huge profits?”
Me: “Oh gosh no. They all lose billions of dollars a year. All of them. Huge losses.”

The Economist headline: “Gen Z Mysteriously Hates Capitalism and No One Can Figure Out Why.”

The Scala Native ecosystem is thriving! 🚀

ldbc, a pure Scala implementation of MySQL, has added support for Scala Native 0.5.x in its latest release. 👏

https://github.com/takapi327/ldbc/releases/tag/v0.7.0

Release v0.7.0 · takapi327/ldbc

ldbc v0.7.0 is released. 🎉 This release includes new features, such as support for Scala Native 0.5.x. Noteldbc is pre-1.0 software and is still undergoing active development. New versions are not ...

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Scala Native v0.5.12 is now available, bringing significant stability updates and bleeding edge concurrency features to the ecosystem. 🚀

✅ Experimental virtual threads support
✅ Improved garbage collector stability
✅ Toolchain updates (JDK 17 + LLVM 16)
✅ Various bug fixes

https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/releases/tag/v0.5.12 #scala

Release Scala Native 0.5.12 · scala-native/scala-native

Highlights of the release Experimental virtual threads (#4793) Scala Native now ships an experimental implementation of Java Virtual Threads on Unix (Linux and macOS on x86_64 and aarch64). The wor...

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