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AKKA Blogs
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AKKA Blogs is the company blog at blog.typesafe.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2011, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Scala for the Impatient”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Scala for the Impatient4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-08-25
- Practically Speaking (Typesafe on Production Scala Issues)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-12-01
- Typesafe (the Scala company) raises $14m in series B3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-22
- Play framework 2.0 released2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-03-13
What Hacker News says?
personal wish: this, with CRUD scaffolding and GAE support, will make Play my dream framework. edit: this news announcement from Typesafe explains a bit more about Play 2.0: http://blog.typesafe.com/introducing-play-20
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on “Play Framework 2.0 Final released”Submitted R.I.P. Phil Bagwell as a story · 182 points
HN discussionIt's also now part of the Typesafe stack - here's the release announcement from the typesafe blog: http://blog.typesafe.com/introducing-play-20
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on “Play Framework 2.0 Final released”Submitted Why Learn Scala in 2013? as a story · 91 points
HN discussionHorstmann's draft tutorial book is shaping up to be a great (non-reference) book http://blog.typesafe.com/free-pdf-from-typesafe-scala-for-th...
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on “Scala school”Submitted Scala for the Impatient as a story · 64 points
HN discussionThe coverage at GigaOm provides a bit more substance. http://gigaom.com/cloud/typesafe-gets-14m-to-push-scala-as-a... And there's the Typsafe blog from the source: http://blog.typesafe.com
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on “Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala”Submitted Play framework 2.0 released as a story · 63 points
HN discussionGreat news! There's more details on the company's blog, too: http://blog.typesafe.com/typesafe-announces-14m-series-b-fin...
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on “Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala”Submitted Akka and the Java Memory Model as a story · 49 points
HN discussionAlso check out: http://blog.typesafe.com/free-pdf-from-typesafe-scala-for-th... In my experience most people find that the best introduction.
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on “Graham’s Guide to Learning Scala”Submitted Slick 1.0 – Type-safe Database Queries for Scala as a story · 48 points
HN discussionScala for the Impatient is definitely the best introduction to Scala (by a wide margin). Re-posting your link: http://blog.typesafe.com/free-pdf-from-typesafe-scala-for-th...
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on “Graham’s Guide to Learning Scala”Submitted Recap of Scala Days as a story · 36 points
HN discussionI don't think this is a good guide for Learning Scala. The Introduction from scala-lang.org and a Tour of Scala are not good introductions. They are meant as a TL;DR that will leave you scratching your head and reading the list of features without the larger context of a language is an awful way to learn about that language. IntelliJ IDEA with the Scala plugin is a good IDE, but the article should have included a li…
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on “Graham’s Guide to Learning Scala”Submitted “Week of Scala” with Manning Publications - Scala books 50% off as a story · 17 points
HN discussionA recent Typesafe blog post was written in response to the last Scala-complaint furor: http://blog.typesafe.com/getting-down-to-work One of the points mentioned there is binary compatibility. The Typesafe people are working on it, so hopefully we'll see some improvement over the next year or so.
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on “Scala's version fragility makes the enterprise argument near impossible”Submitted Introducing Typesafe Console as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThe new SBT is a lot smarter now, my incremental builds are pretty fast. Speed-up is part of the roadmap: http://blog.typesafe.com/getting-down-to-work
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on “Why Learn Scala in 2013?”Submitted Introducing Typesafe Stack 2.0 as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI'd argue that Play will circumvent this "hipster phase" issue for (at least) these three reasons: (1) The ubiquity of the Java/JVM ecosystem paired with the interest in a alternative to Java will keep the functional JVM Langauges like Scala/Clojure in high demand. (2) The Typesafe machine pushing Play (see http://blog.typesafe.com/typesafe-announces-14m-series-b-fin... ). (3) Scala is your best bet for a Statically…
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on “Using Scala to handle exponential growth at a startup”Submitted Typesafe (the Scala company) raises $14m in series B as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere's 2 gentle intro to Scala: http://blog.typesafe.com/free-pdf-from-typesafe-scala-for-th... The other is the Pragmatic book by Subramaniam (Aug 4, 2009). Covers 2.7 (current is 2.9.1) but conveys well the power of simple code. (The Staircase book by Spoon, Odersky and Venners is pretty gentle, but, uh, big) ---------------- You could look at this deck that mentions web apps in scala, haskell, F#, ocaml, erlang…
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on “Ask HN: resources for learning functional languages?”Submitted A First Taste of Akka 2 distributed Java/Scala middleware as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practically Speaking (Typesafe on Production Scala Issues) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Akka kata with the Scala Meetup group in Stockholm/Gothenburg as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Akka 2.0 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala Days 2012 Speakers Announced as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Scala IDE 3.0 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Scala 2.10: A Simpler Way to Tackle Complex Problems as a story · 3 points
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