Scala seems to be a little better to work with in this case. I think he is just referring to iOS. However I have to disagree the author that it's suitable for

Scala seems to be a little better to work with in this case. I think he is just referring to iOS. However I have to disagree the author that it's suitable for desktop GUI applications. I hate running Java programs on desktops (may be except Eclipse), as they always take much more resources than they actually needs, while still maintaining ugly interfaces all over different platforms, or would require much more work for the developers to solve issues with incompatibilities over different configurations of Java installs. For GUIs, Java is _still_ (for since Swing was available) not the choice.