And at last, Italy is ready for the final European match, after crushing The Spread-y Germany. Keep doing good work Italy!

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Erlang is a great language.

[2019-UPDATE] Erlang 22 is OUT, so I wanna to come to the party!

On April 2015, Erlang father’s Joe Armstrong give us a very interesting lesson I want to tell about.

There was a long thread titled “Erlang and Akka, The Sequel” on the erlang mailing list, reasoning about the need of some standard pattern on Promises and Future. A lot of JavaScript libraries deal about that (also jQuery has its implementation). I want to report the Joe Amstrong reply because it give us a very clear understanding on the reason Erlang is different and you should at least try it once.

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Erlang è un linguaggio a mio avviso sottostimato, che ha parecchie cose da insegnare ai vari Scala/Rust/Java(Script) out of there… In particolare ci sono un insieme di feature di Erlang che prese singolarmente non sono difficili da comprendere e implementare, ma è l’insieme delle idee fondanti di Erlang che lo rende assai diverso dagli altri.

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I am playing to Divinity: Original Sin II  (D:OS2) which is the game done before Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3) by Larian Studios

BG3 is a success despite its launch was anticipated in August to avoid head-to-head competition Starfield. If we compare the success of  BG3 with CyberPunk2077 launch failure, I think we can learn something about software developing PLANNING.

Divinity games are a tactical game with a lot of freedom, you can take things, combine them, and solve quests with different approaches (brute forces, talks with different paths,  etc). For instance you can try to open a door with a key, with a burglar kit, or bashing it until it is destroyed (more long but feasible).

 

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