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Come on, this is neat. Try to appreciate it for what it is, a company investing in Scala on Android. Who cares if Scala is not the idea Android platform. There
by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Come on, this is neat. Try to appreciate it for what it is, a company investing in Scala on Android. Who cares if Scala is not the idea Android platform. There was a guy who was live-coding on iOS in Scheme a long time ago and I don't remember everybody shitting on him. People are using Clojure for Android even though it's not necessarily a great idea. If my only choices were Java or Kotlin I'd probably shoot myself, but I'm not an Android dev.
- BoorishBears 9y agoIf that guy released the work as a production app then wrote an article trying to sell us on the process, people might react a little more strongly. There's nothing wrong with doing interesting things, but you need to be clear to yourself and others that it's being done because it's interesting, or for a specific reason other than "it's a generally good idea"
- thesmallestcat 9y agoThey state the reasons in the article. You may disagree with them but they seem reasonable to me.
- BoorishBears 9y agoNo one is saying they're unreasonable, some people are disagreeing with them. But you're strongly implying disgreeing is "shitting on them".
- thesmallestcat 9y agoThe claim is modest: I don't regret the decision. Disagreement in this thread is mostly piling on, one commenter says 'the post feels more like "please don't fire me"'. The disagreement is that "the author should regret it" which is pretty distasteful.