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Scala would be a fucking awesome mainstream language.

gtani 16y ago
Nobody talked about F# here but it's clearly the CLR Next Language, and reasonably f&(*ing awesome; i.e. combines the Next Languageness of clojure, jruby, and scala from the JVM world. Invitably, people will raise the same "broad and deep syntax" complaints they level against scala
- nickik 16y ago
  Clojure much bigger then Scala and F#. http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23%2Cclojure%2Cscala&l=&relative=1 http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23%2Cclojure%2Cscala&#38...
  - gtani 16y ago
    For sure clojure's a nice language with a lot of great lib creators , and the community will continue to grow strongly The (+), (+'), "=" and "==" thing has started to bother peeps http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/59a22dcbc6be628f/ http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/59a... http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/506d97b0c016f3cd/ http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/506... http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2011-01-25.html#09:58a http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2011-01-25.html#09:58a
  - plastics 16y ago
    Holy shit,according to your chart it is even bigger than C and Java! How did this happen without anybody noticing? http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23,clojure,scala,+C,+Java&l=&relative=1 http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23,clojure,scala,+C,+Jav... But maybe this is just a result of comparing relative growth rates of job postings. If you take the time to a look at the percentage of matching job positions, then Scala is pretty dominant (compared to Clojure and F#) :D
- kaffiene 16y ago
  I've looked at it and thought it looked like a very clean and (for a functional language) quite readable. But the ties to MS's VM dooms it IMO. If they made it cross platform (JVM and / or native compilation) and put it in third party hands, then it might stand a chance. BUT, I can't see Joe Public programmer adopting a functional language, even one as nice as F#
orangecat 16y ago
And it actually has a chance of achieving that, unlike Haskell/Erlang/Ocaml/whatever, because Blub developers can just use it as a better Java.
- kotrin 16y ago
  I think you would see JRuby used as an industry de facto before you would see Scala.
  - aaronbrethorst 16y ago
    Why?

gtani 16y ago

Nobody talked about F# here but it's clearly the CLR Next Language, and reasonably f&(*ing awesome; i.e. combines the Next Languageness of clojure, jruby, and scala from the JVM world. Invitably, people will raise the same "broad and deep syntax" complaints they level against scala

nickik 16y ago
Clojure much bigger then Scala and F#. http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23%2Cclojure%2Cscala&l=&relative=1 http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23%2Cclojure%2Cscala&#38...
- gtani 16y ago
  For sure clojure's a nice language with a lot of great lib creators , and the community will continue to grow strongly The (+), (+'), "=" and "==" thing has started to bother peeps http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/59a22dcbc6be628f/ http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/59a... http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/506d97b0c016f3cd/ http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/506... http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2011-01-25.html#09:58a http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2011-01-25.html#09:58a
- plastics 16y ago
  Holy shit,according to your chart it is even bigger than C and Java! How did this happen without anybody noticing? http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23,clojure,scala,+C,+Java&l=&relative=1 http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23,clojure,scala,+C,+Jav... But maybe this is just a result of comparing relative growth rates of job postings. If you take the time to a look at the percentage of matching job positions, then Scala is pretty dominant (compared to Clojure and F#) :D
kaffiene 16y ago
I've looked at it and thought it looked like a very clean and (for a functional language) quite readable. But the ties to MS's VM dooms it IMO. If they made it cross platform (JVM and / or native compilation) and put it in third party hands, then it might stand a chance. BUT, I can't see Joe Public programmer adopting a functional language, even one as nice as F#

orangecat 16y ago

And it actually has a chance of achieving that, unlike Haskell/Erlang/Ocaml/whatever, because Blub developers can just use it as a better Java.

kotrin 16y ago
I think you would see JRuby used as an industry de facto before you would see Scala.
- aaronbrethorst 16y ago
  Why?