A Scala rant

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  2. FrameworkBenchmarks

    Discontinued Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

    http4s is the worst web server on the JVM. It's very slow. It suffers from NIH syndrome so has a poor feature set. And you see code like this to do basic things like authentication e.g.

  3. mdoc

    Typechecked markdown documentation for Scala

    The good news is that scaladoc is produced by default by sbt and published by default. So you can often pull it from the same repository your library jar came from, extract it with zip, and read the docs. But that's also totally unnecessary - javadoc.io allows you to put in your module info and serves the docs for you, so if there's an older version you can access the documentation this way. Rely on the type signatures, since they can't lie, whilst comments (including scaladoc comments) can. Honestly, library authors should be using mdoc and including examples on every public method, and that type of documentation is something you can almost always contribute to a project for a quick pr kudos.

  4. soot

    Soot - A Java optimization framework

    Yeah, I think a cross compiler would be the only way such a thing could be possible. It would be interesting to see how many collections are actually changed though. I have written similar things using soot. The biggest question is whether there would be enough people who would want such a thing. I can't imagine the time savings vs time spent would pay off for me personally.

  5. Apache Spark

    Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing

    yep, nailed it: https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/pom.xml#L122

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