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Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, Ceylon, Groovy and now Xtend. Going to be interesting to see what languages win out in what niches on the JVM.
by halvsjur 14y ago
Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, Ceylon, Groovy and now Xtend. Going to be interesting to see what languages win out in what niches on the JVM.
- systems 14y agoWell, recently i started learning clojure, and i am surprised by the size of the community and ecosystem ... its big ... and active i wanted to learn either scala or clojure and decide to pick the language with tighter java libraries integration (the language that makes it easier to use java lib), and according the the reviews i read, clojure won in that area if the level of activity around clojure continues at this rate, i believe it will easily outshine the competition also dont discount jRuby, it has a nice following
- webreac 14y agoPeople on clojure forum were not very nice. I am learning scala with https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index. Scala guys are very nice and the language is really awesome.
- jbrechtel 14y agoNothing against Clojure, but I'm curious what you read that made you think Clojure has better Java interop than Scala? Using Java code from Scala is literally the same as using Scala code from Scala. Same thing if you replace Java with Scala and Scala with Java (with the exception of some Scala constructs that aren't present in Java). This is not true of Clojure..
- systems 14y agoa bit late but this is the link where i read it http://codemonkeyism.com/clojure-scala-part-2/ http://codemonkeyism.com/clojure-scala-part-2/ looked trust worthy to me!
- Ygg2 14y agoJust to add more to that list, there is also Fantom (my choice of a better Java) and haXe which also deserves a mention, for managing to hit five or six different platforms.