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Java (or should I say "JVM") is great and only getting better. If only the JVM had something like npm or RubyGems and a language not as complex as Scala to comp
by kolev 12y ago
Java (or should I say "JVM") is great and only getting better. If only the JVM had something like npm or RubyGems and a language not as complex as Scala to compile to bytecode as efficiently as Java, with some less verbose syntax, it would be a total killer. I recently started to use Groovy more and more. I'm not sure how efficient its compiler is, looked into Golo, but something bothers me in it. Ceylon seems great, but its pace of development is even slower than Java's own and it doesn't even support JDK 8 features yet.
- vorg 12y ago> Java, with some less verbose syntax, it would be a total killer. I recently started to use Groovy more and more Did you switch to Groovy for simpler syntax? Take a look at its grammar and you'll see it's far from simple, there's so many syntactic corner cases... http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk/groovy/groovy-core/src/main/org/codehaus/groovy/antlr/groovy.g http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk/groovy/groovy-core/src/...
- kolev 12y agoNot for that, but because I write a bunch of one-off tools and with Groovy, I can contain everything in a single file - including external dependencies, - and this is like the simplicity and portability of Bash in a higher-level language. Of course, you need to have (Open)JDK and Groovy installed as a prerequisite. P.S. I don't like Goorvy syntax much and that's why I'm looking for alternatives all the time.
- frowaway001 12y agoI'm extremely happy with SBT + Scala.
- kolev 12y agoI wish I didn't have some issues - my life would be much happier now.