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As a new Android developer Scala wouldn't remotely have come to my mind as a feature I wanted anytime soon. The Android Studio is still in beta, the ability to
by 27182818284 12y ago
As a new Android developer Scala wouldn't remotely have come to my mind as a feature I wanted anytime soon. The Android Studio is still in beta, the ability to test different platforms with the simulator is less than great (poor) experience still on a MacBook Pro, and the vast majority of developers come out with iOS versions of their products before Android. Those three alone need massive attention before I would even remotely want Google to focus resources on Scala development.
- ibebrett 12y agoScala is an immensely popular jvm language (as far as jvm langaugesg go). That's why it would be a good candidate.
- zak_mc_kracken 12y agoScala and Groovy both have about 2% mind share on the JVM. I wouldn't call that "immense".
- ibebrett 12y agoAre you counting java in that percentage? What is the percentage of scala out of non-java jvm languages?
- zak_mc_kracken 12y agoIt seems to be tied with Groovy at the #2 spot (about 2% each).
- frowaway001 12y agoMaybe 2% developers. Mind share ... are there any great minds left in the Java ecosystem? Doesn't feel that way.
- vorg 12y agoScala and Groovy are used for two totally different use cases. Scala is used instead of Java as a systems language for building systems, whereas Groovy is used as well as Java for testing Java classes or calling them from Grails. In theory we could use Groovy as the dynamic language for Scala, but because of its type inference and syntactic tersity Scala doesn't need a Groovy.