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Good to see some love for Scala after all the recent rants. Unfortunately, I think it's going to be short lived. Most shops where Scala would be an option will
by donjigweed 13y ago
Good to see some love for Scala after all the recent rants. Unfortunately, I think it's going to be short lived. Most shops where Scala would be an option will soon have a production release of JDK8 available to them, at which point Scala's tradeoffs really only become acceptable to those who already have significant investment in the language or who think category theory is a reasonable companion to an industrial language.
- singingcheese 13y agoJava 8 would make a very poor Scala substitute, and only offers a small subset of what is provided by Scala.
- kasey_junk 13y agoJDK8 is a very nice release and I hope it will bring Java a few years ahead, but there are so many things still missing from Java that every time I shriek. From big things like no type class support to tiny things like 1 file per interface/class the Java experience continues to be frustrating in the extreme.
- donjigweed 13y agoWhich is why I said "Scala's tradeoffs" would become unacceptable. Java 8 is basically "close enough" to "The Good Parts" of Scala that most people probably won't be willing to tolerate all of Scala's warts.
- frowaway001 13y ago> Java 8 is basically "close enough" to "The Good Parts" of Scala Ehh ... not really. And I honestly don't see the gap between Java and Scala closing. It's widening at a frightening rate. Java's warts are far worse than Scala's warts. So I'm not seeing why that should be a point either.