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VirtusLab

Company blog · virtuslab.com/blogprogramming

VirtusLab is the company blog at virtuslab.com, writing about programming. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “AkkaPaint – simplicity and power of Akka”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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17mentions?
10HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The comments discuss Scala in hardware design and Scala 3 migration tooling, but none of them addresses the VirtusLab writing itself. The linked posts appear to be on Scala-related topics.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. AkkaPaint – simplicity and power of Akka
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Almost all of RISC-V is Scala land! Scala has actually some stand in HW development and high-performance computing. See also https://spatial-lang.org/ which is another Scala DSL, this time for accelerators. Scala in general is a much underrated language. One of the most powerful high level languages, but with a concise and very clean core. Since the new syntax was introduced in version 3 it even looks amazingly beau…

    Comment linking /blog/the-most-common-scala-myths-debunked/

    on “Open-source high-performance RISC-V processor”
  2. Submitted Arrows, Monads and Kleisli – part I as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  3. They introduced a new Python like syntax, and pushed to move away from the curly based syntax. There were other breaking changes as well. https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/guides/migration/compatib... This naturally broke all the tooling. Then you have Metals for VSCode InteliJ plugins, while the Eclipse plugin was dropped. InteliJ plugin is much further than Metals, however there is the conflict of interests with…

    Comment linking /blog/scala/introduction-to-scala-3-checking

    on “Scarf has moved away from Haskell”
  4. Submitted ConductR: Typesafe’s move in lightweight containers and distributed clusters as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Most Common Scala Myths Debunked as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Zinc (sbt) friendly code as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted AkkaPaint – simplicity and power of Akka as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Diving in the data lake as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Spark SQL under the hood – part I as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Make your way through the Git (rebase) jungle with Git machete as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Advent of Code 2017: a brief summary as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Advent of Code: Were you nice or naughty this year? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Mechanics of unboxed union types in Scala as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Smooth operator with Slick 3 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted AkkaPaint – simplicity and power of Akka as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Arrows, Monads and Kleisli – Part II as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted POC of Akka Application in Scala Interacting with Hardware on Intel Edison as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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