Lovable Acquires Sutro, Company Behind the SLang Programming Language

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    "title": "Lovable Acquires Sutro, Company Behind the SLang Programming Language - unite.ai",
    "excerpt": "Lovable announced on September 18, 2026 that it has acquired Sutro, the company behind the SLang programming language and a platform for generating production-ready backends. Sutro founder Tomas Halgas and three Sutro engineers are joining Lovable, and Halgas will lead the company’s technical evangelism. In the announcement, Lovable said the Sutro team spent five years building a language, compiler, and backend platform that made application behavior and rules explicit, describing it as engineering built for security and reliability. Lovable said the deal reflects a conviction the two teams share: that people should be able to trust the software they build to run their businesses, while the platform carries more of the underlying complexity. Lovable wrote that as more people build and ship software, “understanding it has to be as effortless as building it,” and that once anyone can put software into production, its reliability and trust have to match the experience of building it. Halgas is joined at Lovable by Sutro engineers Max Gfeller, Tony Zhan, and Hirad Arshadi. According to the announcement, Halgas’s new role continues the work that drove Sutro: “making how the technology actually works understandable to the people building with it.” Sutro’s website markets its product as proper backends built on what the company calls a zero-infra approach, centered on SLang, a...",
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