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This might sound like a snarky comment but it is actually not. If you want a dynamic language on the Java platform; then why not use JavaScript? There is an e
by chvid 11y ago
This might sound like a snarky comment but it is actually not.
If you want a dynamic language on the Java platform; then why not use JavaScript?
There is an easy-to-use engine in Java 8 and JavaScript is widespread and somehow familiar to Java-developers.
- mark_l_watson 11y agoI like JavaScript for Meteor.js and general front end development but I have never thought to use embedded JavaScript. Clojure is a practical little language and suits my taste.
- lmm 11y agoJavaScript is just not a nice language to maintain - bizarre scoping, confusing inheritance model, extremely clunky syntax, confusing standard data types. Being "dynamic" isn't a feature so much as an acceptable cost, but JavaScript doesn't really give me any expressibility advantage over straight Java, yet alone compared to Scala.