> Lithuanian railway and Belarus deal should be known better to you.
It's has been blown out of proportion without understanding the full picture, not corruption. "The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has officially confirmed that Washington's sanctions against Belaruskali, one of the world's largest potash fertiliser producers and exporters, are not binding on Lithuania's state-owned railways.[1]"
Lithuanian railway cannot just terminate their contract otherwise they will face legal consequences in Court of Arbitration. They are looking for a legal way to kill the contract, but it takes time and planing.
Pick some other from the list:
Vilnius Subway project,
National airline,
National stadium.
There are no state projects that are designed for wellbeing of the citizens. They are all made for state money laundering. You know why MO Museum is so different from everything in that country? It’s made by rich guy for people without selfish interests.
> Now it is just another weird faceless post Soviet country that made into EU and NATO. No strategy, no goals, no future.
You've been reading too much propaganda. Living in Lithuania is become better each year. Lithuania's GDP is like Belarus, while the population is 3x smaller. Lithuania has surpassed russia in GDP per Capita long time ago. Lithuania is #11 in doing business [1]. Lithuania is Largest Fintech hub in the EU in terms of licensed companies[2]. Lithuania is one of global leaders when it comes to laser technology. And currently, there are talks between Taiwan and Lithuania about semi-conductor factory. And that is being achieved in only 30 years or so.
Regarding being faceless. Lithuania has showed that it has a strong spine again and again against authoritarian regimes. By hosting Belarusian pro democracy leaders [3], by support Ukraine in every possible way in their path to democracy, and yes, supporting Taiwan, which resulted in spat between China and Lithuania.
While we old western countries talk, Lithuania walks the talk.
Lithuania has very much a face. And that's the face of being pro democracy. Yes they are small and they rely on their partners support, but they have values.
Lithuanian milk products are leading in the world! And they make some serious revenue compared to the lasers. Single German company is much bigger than everything laser related in Lithuania: https://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/maschinen...
I mean I was lured into this tale by Prof. Dr. Piskarskas too, but the reality is much different. Lithuania has magnificent food processing industry delivering products for the same old Soviet brotherhood countries as it did 50 years ago.
Regarding Taiwan and semiconductor factory. Sorry, I can’t take it serious being electrical engineer and working in semiconductor manufacturing.
The foreign policy is absolutely shit in Lithuania. Relationships with Poland and Latvia are a disaster. Relationship with Russia and Belarus plus China is kind of Cold War. Sorry, I can’t praise this. Just look at Israel: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/8/jordan-israel-agree-... You see, you don’t must like everybody in the world, but business is business and well being of of the own people should be more important than some insane moral principles.
> And they make some serious revenue compared to the lasers.
I don't know why you've linked ekspla, which has 4x lower revenue than Light Conversion. And sure, the revenue is bigger in Pieno Zvaigzde, than in Light Conversion, but the profit is almost 3x lower[1][2]. Also, look at the grown of revenue. It's like night a day.
> Single German company is much bigger than everything laser related in Lithuania
So? Am I to understand that Germany has won the competition in laser related technologies and Lithuania has no chance?
> Regarding Taiwan and semiconductor factory. Sorry, I can’t take it serious being electrical engineer and working in semiconductor manufacturing.
We shall see :)
> The foreign policy is absolutely shit in Lithuania. Relationships with Poland and Latvia are a disaster.
Source? Because Poland and Lithuania has been cooperating on multiple levels and their relationship is at the highest right now. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania also are cooperating on a lot of levels. Just recently, they've agree to create joint ‘operational area’ for defence[3]. They also agreed to jointly develop a MLRS artillery system for the first time. Thanks to russia, relationships are better than ever.
While relationships with authoritarian regimes were never warm to begin with so I don't see any loss here. Either you support pro-democracy or not. If not, relationship with these countries will be bad.
I see, you are the real ambassador. I like that! But life is not black and white. There would be no loss for not being in a war against China, Russia and Belarus.
You won't need to rewrite into async model, because project Loom will introduce virtual threads. That means your sync code will look exactly the same, but will have scalability of async.
Interesting. It's ok. It seems like they're adding this syntax just to avoid extra copies eg, `p with {x = 3, y = 4}` instead of `p.withX(3).withY(4)`. I really don't mind the later.
My gut feel is that records break encapsulation and will make refactoring slightly more difficult than the equivalent lombok value class. But if this gets more people making objects immutable, I'm all for it.
The perfect transparency of the underlying data is rather the whole point of records. Tempered by immutability, records should be a useful tool for modeling data where encapsulation is not required. Note that it is still possible to add methods that can perform computation on the underlying data.
Value classes cannot provide the performance/memory flatness that Valhalla will bring though. So I'm not really sure what benefit does "values classes" bring. Just to make sure, you are talking about the inline class which is just a wrapper around single property?
"value class" is the next step for inline classes. They are going to behave very much like Swift's struct and its "mutating methods". And they are going to be "Valhalla ready" so we'll get the performance improvements automatically when it lands.
In a sense, they are an upgraded data class with a much more precise and controlled form of mutation. Rather than a `var` field meaning the object will mutate in-place, it will basically automatically call a kind of (implicit) "copy()" method. Further, you may only mutate these `var` fields inside of class methods that are marked with a new keyword: `mutating`.
Read through the KEEP. It's pretty interesting stuff. At first it kind of rubbed me the wrong way, but the more I thought about it, the more excited I got about it- especially after thinking about how Swift does it and it works well there.
I think Loom can be abstracted away by Kotlin quite easily. Valhalla on the other hand won't work at all. You won't be able to have inline classes in android/older Java versions. Even more - specialized generics.
Pro russia equally sized? Where are you getting this from? It seems you're just a troll and I'll stop engaging with you now.
> can’t guarantee the same outcome today.
Lithuania has one of most positive view on EU[1].
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/10/14/the-european-u...