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Why not just use Scala? I'm not a Java progammer and have no reason to become one, but I've been looking at Scala recently and it looks very interesting. I am a
by michaelwww 13y ago
Why not just use Scala? I'm not a Java progammer and have no reason to become one, but I've been looking at Scala recently and it looks very interesting. I am a C# progammer and F# is becoming more and more compelling.
- nessus42 13y ago> Why not just use Scala? That's what we decided! And now that's what we do.
- gtani 13y agohttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/horstmann-1958988.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/horstmann-19... Horstmann wrote "Scala for the Impatient" (great book) and presents the issues around the language and tooling pretty fairly
- michaelwww 13y agoThe author of Scala also makes a good case. He briefly compares Scala and Clojure, then talks about the benefits of functional programming in regards to multicore processing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiurd7KaSEI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiurd7KaSEI
- el_fuser 13y agoBecause the tooling support, for the most part, is lagging.
- srameshc 13y agoBecause Scala is not Java. Scala is complex. Java will get better with future releases but Scala is certainly not the replacement for Java.
- eweise 13y agoActually it is be a drop-in replacement for Java and I would argue with case classes, lack of ceremony, no primitive types, etc that it is a simpler language than Java.
- happy_dino 13y agoThat's my experience, too. Of course there are things which are not quite simple in both languages, but in Scala those things are features which actually enable me to solve issues, not some language design failures from 1995 with which we have to live now for the rest of Java's life.