Lovable acquires Sutro, the company behind the SLang programming language

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    "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, with Halgas leading the company's technical evangelism. In the announcement, Lovable said that the Sutro team dedicated five years to building a language, a compiler, and a backend platform that made application behavior and rules explicit, describing it as engineering designed for security and reliability. Lovable stated that the agreement reflects a conviction shared by both teams: that people should be able to trust the software they create to operate their businesses, while the platform assumes much of the underlying complexity. Lovable wrote that as more people create and deploy software, “understanding it has to be as straightforward as building it,” and that once anyone can put software into production, its reliability and trustworthiness must match the experience of building it. Joining Halgas at Lovable are Sutro engineers Max Gfeller, Tony Zhan, and Hirad Arshadi.\nAccording to the announcement, Halgas's new role continues the work that drove Sutro: “making the actual operation of technology understandable to the people who use it.” Sutro's website promotes its product as suitable backends built on what the company calls a...",
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