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Ceylon is a great language in my opinion. I would rather programm in Ceylon than in C#.
by Gurkenmaster 12y ago
Ceylon is a great language in my opinion. I would rather programm in Ceylon than in C#.
- meddlepal 12y agoThat's good to hear! I haven't played with it yet beyond flipping through the docs. Have you built any production ready apps or libraries in it? How was the transition from writing Java? Did anything cause you pain or surprise?
- Gurkenmaster 12y agoThe Eclipse IDE plugin works but is pretty slow. I wouldn't use it if I wasn't so used to autocompletion + documentation in my IDE. The module system can use the central maven repository but it doesn't accept dashes in the name like jackson-core unless you put it in quotes. (Took me a while to figure out). Ceylon doesn't have enums but you can emulate them like this: http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.1/tour/types#enumerated_instances http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.1/tour/types#enumerat... Otherwise it's fairly straightforward to translate java into ceylon. I love immutability by default. Only 10% of my variables/fields are actually mutable. I could reduce that percentage further if the jvm had TCO.