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Gerard Finol

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Mathematician and CS | PhDing and researcher | Messing around with distributed systems and functional programming

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Typelevel Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity

The Typelevel Foundation was determined to be a 501(c)(3) public charity!

This is a testament to the intellectual merit and educational value of our community's contributions to functional programming. Congratulations!

typelevel.org/blog/charity...

05.03.2026 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing Unison 1.0 After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.

πŸŽ‰ Unison 1.0 has landed!

After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!

Spread the word!

25.11.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6
kebab-case: Taking the plunge: a deep dive into streaming with fs2- main

✨Streams✨ can be used to describe control flow, what a nice introduction to the topic by @zainab.pureasync.com

πŸ”— kebab-ca.se/presentation...

24.09.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#scala

20.08.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:
2. Exactly-once delivery
1. Guaranteed order of messages
2. Exactly-once delivery

15.08.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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🀝 We've just added collaborator support to Unison Share!

You can now add fellow Unison devs to your projects with these roles:

πŸ‘οΈ View – Read & download
πŸ”§ Maintain – Read, download, merge & write
πŸ”‘ Admin – Full admin permissions

Try it out here: share.unison-lang.org/

25.03.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Replace "github" with "gitingest" in the url, and you get the whole repo as a single string that you can then paste in your LLMs

14.02.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 6
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JDK 17 will be the next minimum version required by Scala 3

Significant #Scala announcement: after years of idle conversation, and a more-focused discussion over the past couple of months, the decision has formally been made to jump Scala 3's requirements up to JDK 17, as of the next LTS release: https://www.scala-lang.org/news/next-scala-lts-jdk.html

05.03.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Typelevel | Typelevel Summer of Code 2025 Typelevel is an ecosystem of projects and a community of people united to foster an inclusive, welcoming, and safe environment around functional programming in Scala.

We are proud to announce that Typelevel is a Mentoring Organization for Google Summer of Code 2025!!

Check out our blog post to learn more πŸŽ‰
typelevel.org/blog/2025/02...

27.02.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

❀️‍πŸ”₯

18.02.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have had some time to play with @unison-lang.org a bit more. The thought that keeps coming to me is how much of a joy it is to work with, in the same sense as when I first started programming on a BBC Micro.

All you need is a text editor and the unison code manager.

Everything is just simple, …

11.02.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture | Quanta Magazine A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

A 40-years old conjecture about Hashtables was just disproved: www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduat...

11.02.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0