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>Why is using the right tool for the job "jilting" another language which was never designed or meant to be suitable for the same job? That would be a question
by michaelneale 18y ago
>Why is using the right tool for the job "jilting" another language which was never designed or meant to be suitable for the same job?
That would be a question for the journalist who made it up ;) I am sure the answer was "cause it sounded cool !".
- jhancock 18y agothat's pretty much how "the Reg" operates. Without regard to the tone of the article though, Scala and Lift are worth spending some time with. Lift still has a ways to go in terms of providing a turnkey stack in the same vein as a Rails or Merb stack. If you thought putting together a Ruby dev environment had a lot of pieces, get ready for Lift...not so much Lift's fault as its the nature of the heavyweight JVM toolset world.
- michaelneale 18y agoI love scala, as a language, and love rails, as a framework which doesn't make me thing to much - I can see how twitter would like the combo too. Even with the toolchain annoyances I think scala is pretty productive, at least it is for me.