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Learning Scala right now. Seems it fits nicely as the NBL according to Steve Yegge's criteria: #1 C-like syntax (might be closer to Ruby actually) #2 Static-t

by riobard 17y ago

Learning Scala right now. Seems it fits nicely as the NBL according to Steve Yegge's criteria: #1 C-like syntax (might be closer to Ruby actually) #2 Static-typing but feels pretty dynamic due to extremely good type inference #3 Perform on par with plain Java #4 IDE(Eclipse/NetBean) support #5 Everything in the "Kitch sink" section included + Actor-based threadless concurrency + easy to write embedded DSL + (I heard even continuation is coming soon). So what's missing is a macro system ... #6 JVM so multiplatform by default (even on Android)

Slashed 17y ago
I code in Scala for some time now. Love this language! Though I think that Node.JS is something different and has different purpose(yet to be discovered). Scala as any language that runs on JVM, doesn't completely support Non-Blocking IO(this should be fixed in Java 7 though).
- riobard 17y ago
  "JVM, doesn't completely support Non-Blocking IO" Isn't java.nio supposed to provide non-blocking IO (at least for socket)?
  - Slashed 17y ago
    Yeah, for sockets java.nio does that just fine, not for files. Of course, it's an improvement over plain java.io but still it's not non-blocking.
    - gojomo 17y ago
      Actually, given improvements in threading, NIO doesn't give faster socket throughput in typical many-connection servers. See: http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2008/03/writing-java-multithreaded-servers.html http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2008/03/writing-java-multithrea...
c00p3r 17y ago
JVM so multiplatform by default (even on Android) Even on Android what? Which Scala based project I could run on Android unmodified? Where I can get JVM for linux/bsd on ARM?