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> There's a legitimate feeling the language tacked on way too much, too soon. A lot of people certainly feel this way, and this feeling has given rise to the f
by zak_mc_kracken 11y ago
> There's a legitimate feeling the language tacked on way too much, too soon.
A lot of people certainly feel this way, and this feeling has given rise to the first crop of post-Scala languages: Ceylon and Kotlin.
I'm sure there will be more.
- justthistime_ 11y agoPeople are still asking for examples, not for some popularity vote on feelings. (Also, the designer of one of the languages mentioned was completely unaware of Scala when he created his own.)
- zak_mc_kracken 11y agoNo, you are confusing people. The person is James Strachan, he created Groovy. Since then, he abandoned Scala and he's now a committer on Kotlin (or was, not sure if he still is, he tends to bounce around projects a lot).
- justthistime_ 11y agoNo, I'm right. I didn't think of James Strachan. (He by the way stopped contributing to Kotlin around October 2012. You're welcome.)
- zak_mc_kracken 11y agoOk, so who is this person you are referring to?
- vorg 11y agoDon't think that's the case with Ceylon or Kotlin, perhaps with some other "post-Scala" JVM language such as Gosu or Fantom, but definitely with Groovy. It's creator James Strachan wrote in http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-repl... "I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy".