The rise of tooling for vulnerability detection combined with pressure driven by Vendor Due Diligence is causing a massive enterprise freezeout for non-mainstream technologies across the board. Of particular concern is the impact this will have on the ado[...]

there are functions out there more scary than unsafePerformIO and this is the tale of one of them: absurd. This powerful spell allows evil warlocks to conjure anything they want from the Void: but what does that mean? Is this even possible without using t[...]

If you used Haskell for some time you probably have seen Hoogle and used the Haddock Documentations before. But what if you want to take those with you (say you have no WiFi)? I like to install both things locally and stack is a really nice and quick way [...]

. . . it's interesting to see the number of efforts to build new languages on old vm's . . .

Tweet Note: read the whole series here.   Last time around we looked at Scala’s Case Class in depth and how it compares to F#’s Discriminated Unions. F# also has Active Patterns, which is a very powerful language feature in its own right. Unsurprisingly, [...]

Tweet Note: read the whole series here.   Continuing on from where we left off with traits last time around, let’s look at Scala’s case class/object which can be used to create Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) in Scala.   Case Class You can declare an ADT in F[...]

Tweet Note: read the whole series here.   Continuing on from where we left off with type inference last time around, let’s look at a language feature in Scala that doesn’t exist in F# – traits. Scala has both abstract classes and traits (think of them as [...]

Tweet It’s a new year, a new job, a new language (Scala) and runtime (JVM) to work with. After a week of learning about my new surroundings at Space Ape Games and getting up to speed with Scala I have learnt a fair bit. In my own journey (aided by Twitter[...]

Tweet Hello, Recording of my programming languages talk at The Lead Developer conference this year is available now. It was a well run, and intimate conference despite nearly 500 attendees this year. It’s quite different from many conferences I have atten[...]

I've recently had reason to do a bit of work with JNI .  Throughout the course of this work I had to do quite a lot of Googling in order to figure out how to properly manage the caching of various JNI objects used by my C++ code. Some JNI objects can be s[...]