Futures are an interesting concept in concurrent and parallel programming. I’ve written about them several time, the last time in Advanced Futures With Play Framework. Streams are a concept which came with Java 8 to operate on a stream of objects, transform and filter them. Combining Futures and Streams in Java sometimes isn’t easy. Some […]
Read More »Some time ago I wrote A Little Guide on Using Futures for Web Developers to explain how to use Futures in web development to speed up page delivery with parallelism. Futures in Play Lately I’ve played a little with the Play Framework using its async actions so I want to add to this guide. Play […]
Read More »I’m working on a new mainstream programming language that prevents more bugs than current mainstream languages. One idea it will incorporate are Tagged Types. I wrote about them recently in Real Life Bug Prevention in Scala. Tagged Types can be used to solve different problems. Often they are used as marker types. In the context […]
Read More »Using Scala for the last 5 years to run eventsofa I’ve became a better programmer creating less bugs. Most of the code is Java++ Scala compared to more canonical functional Haskell-like Scala. So I’m interested how Scala used in this way prevents bugs that I would make in Java, Python or Ruby. There have been […]
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