javalin.github.io VS galoisenne

The size statistics page is super cool: https://github.com/byronka/minum/blob/master/docs/size_compa...

Reasoning this way about software and dependencies more often seems like a good thing, just so we're aware of what we're actually getting into, especially with projects that use npm.

I actually hadn't heard of Javalin before, which also seems nice: https://javalin.io/

Aside from that, I've also had good experiences with Dropwizard - which is way simpler than Spring Boot but at the same time uses a bunch of idiomatic packages (like Jetty, Jersey, Jackson, Logback and so on): https://www.dropwizard.io/en/stable/

I do wonder whether Minum would ever end up on the TechEmpower benchmarks and how it'd stack up against the other libraries/frameworks there, those benchmarks are pretty interesting.

Counter-example: https://javalin.io/ uses Servlets, and seems to be doing quite fine without annotations.

Yes, and it was not that well designed to be honest... the successor is quite a lot nicer and it's called Javalin[1].

Same philosophy but just got things right where Spark, being the "first" (in the Java world, using the design inherited by Sinatra[2]) had a few design issues.

[1] https://javalin.io/

[2] https://sinatrarb.com/

I strongly advocate frameworks like https://javalin.io/ and Jooq (https://www.jooq.org/) if you are going to start a new project in Java.

During a recent programming detour, I discovered that finite elementary cellular automata with circular boundary conditions can be simulated using power iteration using matrix-vector multiplication with a circulant matrix and a strange kind of algebra, which I call a kernel algebra. [1] I wonder if this same idea could be generalized to higher dimensional automata on other topological surfaces.

[1]: https://github.com/breandan/galoisenne/blob/8f0f1e9e4e02062c...

Well, I've been trying for about three years, but to be fair I'm a pretty slow programmer so you may have better luck.

> a language being too obscure to have seen much academic study

Doesn't seem too obscure to me.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=kotl...

> T isn't generic in that code, it's just a class.

I think it needs to be a generic type in Kotlin for this to work, because otherwise it will dispatch to a single method. It's tricky to get Kotlin to do much compile time computation. Not saying that it's impossible, but LMK when you've actually tried it. Here's some sample code if you want to try encoding a Boolean logic:

https://github.com/breandan/galoisenne/blob/2e465e7a753f6341...