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Few things to look at that meet somewhere in the middle: - Java 8 (lambda, mixins and functional collections) - Mirah (Nutter's typed Ruby on the JVM) - Scala
by spullara 14y ago
Few things to look at that meet somewhere in the middle:
- Java 8 (lambda, mixins and functional collections)
- Mirah (Nutter's typed Ruby on the JVM)
- Scala (like Java 8, but even more functional)
- cageface 14y agoYep. I expect the static JVM languages to get the best of Ruby before Ruby gets the best of them. But my money is currently on Kotlin.
- martinvanaken 14y agoI'm following very closely what is happening in the "dynamic languages on the JVM space", and I agree there is really ambitious work and progress there (Mirah & JRuby from Charles Nutter & others, Kotlin, Groovy, etc). I like the fact that we are coming to a situation where you can use the language you want on the platform you want.
- swah 14y agoOT: you need one empty line between each line to do the bullet point you wanted.
- CookWithMe 14y agoI agree, there is a middle ground and it is worth looking at that. Worked a lot with Java, but also dynamic languages (lots of Python, but also Smalltalk and Ruby). My experience was similar: I was missing something on either side. Currently I like Scala a lot, and it has a console as well as great collections.