http://www.drmaciver.com Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:34:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Warning: I'm half asleep, and this post is somewhere between a brain dump and a rant. Coherency is strictly optional). So, my latest random personal project has turned into a bit of a debacle. I decided I wanted a Java bytecode manipulation library with a decent Scala API. The options were either ... http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/06/lessons-learned-in-class/ As you might have noticed, I'm sometimes a very angry person. :-) One of the things that has gotten me particularly angry recently is the shockingly poor quality of aggregation sites for Scala. There's Artima Scala Buzz, which I've chronicled my irritation with before, and a new Scala driven ad farm ... http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/06/planet-scala/ In the latest in the long series of slightly half-assed projects of mine that never really approach anything near completion, I've been tinkering with runtime code generation for structural types. Scala's structural types are implemented using reflection. Reflection on the JVM is unfortunately quite slow, but the dynamic language community have ... http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/06/code-generation-for-structural-proxies/ There's been a thread on Scala debate in the last day or two about breaking the current array implementation. It's in most regards a very tedious thread, but one thing that's emerged in the course of the thread is that people don't really understand how Scala arrays work. This isn't ... http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/06/scala-arrays/ One of my random pet projects at the moment is putting together a prettified linear algebra API for Scala. I'm not implementing the linear algebra routines myself, but am instead implementing it as a wrapper over Colt. This isn't really any sort of stable release or project. It's more of ... http://www.drmaciver.com/2008/06/random-linear-algebra-hackery-in-scala/