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He lost me at "since its strongly typed....". That's not a feature, its a bug in most cases.

• henning 19y ago
  Since you like to judge things without giving a fair chance, there's not much anyone can do for you. Have you ever used a language in the ML family or one influenced by ML? OCaml, Haskell, Scala, Standard ML, etc? Have you ever used a language with type inference? If you want performance and you don't want to sacrifice garbage collection, at the moment ML-family languages are the best thing around.
  • vikram 19y ago
    Fair comment. But I have used F# a little which is heavily influence from OCaml. IMHO until you have atleast a soft real time problem that you are solving, it just isn't worth worrying about code performance. It's more important to worry about developer performance. I know that type inference does help with that. My bad I didn't follow the scala link. But the post says, "lift code is as clean and brief as Rails, yet performs 6 times faster and is multithreaded. Additionally, because Scala is strongly typed, the compiler catches type errors." To me these aren't real advantages. It's like Java having a lot of libraries. So what, it still takes 3 times as long to do anything in it. Who care if there is more code to go around.