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Does Fantom have any traction? It sounds interesting.
by Tichy 15y ago
Does Fantom have any traction? It sounds interesting.
- gtani 15y agomy idea of traction/participation for a language is some nontrivial volume on github, stackoverflow, mailing list and IRC. OP talks about fantom, scala, Groovy, Ceylon, Kotlin, Xtend, Clojure in the article (doesnt' mention JRuby or gosu, but they're worth looking into too)
- timclark 15y agoFantom is an interesting language go and try it out! I don't think it has much traction but it is simple, easy to understand and contains some thought provoking ideas. You can get to know most of the language and most of the built in libraries with a few evenings playing with an editor and reading the online documentation. Also go and look at Ceylon and Kotlin (please, please JetBrains get some code out for Kotlin soon!), they both also contain lots of interesting ideas but are more complex than Fantom. In fact Fantom, Kotlin and Ceylon all have two features that I like, null safety and a module and dependency system baked into the language.
- soc88 15y agoNo, not really. And it just broke backward compatibility, one thing all these Scala critics get so worked up about.