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July 2009
June 2009
Erik Engbrecht's Blog: Pondering Actor Design Trades
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# Why is the standard Scala actor implementation so complex when others have done it in a such simpler fashion?
# Is it better to have one, big actor library that supports a wide variety of use cases, or a bunch of smaller ones targeted at specific niches and programming styles?
# If there are to be a bunch, should they just be conceptually similar (e.g. all based on the actor model), or should there be interoperability among them?
scalacheck - Google Code
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ScalaCheck is a powerful tool for automatic unit testing of Scala and Java programs. It features automatic test case generation and minimization of failing test cases. ScalaCheck started out as a Scala port of the Haskell library QuickCheck, and has since evolved and been extended with features not found in Haskell QuickCheck.
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Programming Scala
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Scala is an exciting, modern, multi-paradigm language for the JVM. You can use it to write traditional, imperative, object-oriented code. But you can also leverage its higher level of abstraction to take full advantage of modern, multicore systems. Programming Scala will show you how to use this powerful functional programming language to create highly scalable, highly concurrent applications on the Java Platform.
Java to Scala with the Help of Experts | The Scala Programming Language
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Java to Scala with the Help of Experts
The Scala Programming Language
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Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more productive. Code sizes are typically reduced by a factor of two to three when compared to an equivalent Java application
scalaris - Google Code
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Scalaris is a scalable, transactional, distributed key-value store. It can be used for building scalable Web 2.0 services.
Clojure - home
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Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.
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May 2009
mojombo's erlectricity at master - GitHub
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Erlectricity allows a Ruby program to receive and respond to Erlang messages sent over the Erlang binary protocol.
Ruby / EventMachine - Trac
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EventMachine is a library for Ruby, C , and Java programs. It provides event-driven I/O using the Reactor pattern. EventMachine is designed to simultaneously meet two key needs:
* Extremely high scalability, performance and stability for the most demanding production environments; and
* An API that eliminates the complexities of high-performance threaded network programming, allowing engineers to concentrate on their application logic.
This unique combination makes EventMachine a premier choice for designers of critical networked applications, including web servers and proxies, email and IM production systems, authentication/authorization processors, and many more.
dramatis - Dramatis - Dramatis
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Dramatis - An actor library for Ruby and Python
March 2009
plists - Google Code
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plists is a drop-in replacement for the Erlang module lists, making most list operations parallel. It can operate on each element in parallel, for IO-bound operations, on sublists in parallel, for taking advantage of multi-core machines with CPU-bound operations, and across erlang nodes, for parallizing inside a cluster. It handles errors and node failures. It can be configured, tuned, and tweaked to get optimal performance while minimizing overhead.
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