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I think I prefer the Scala/LiftWeb one: http://lift-example.appspot.com/chat http://lift-example.appspot.com/chat
by kikibobo69 17y ago
I think I prefer the Scala/LiftWeb one: http://lift-example.appspot.com/chat http://lift-example.appspot.com/chat
- rbarooah 17y agoThey don't look very comparable to me. Unless I'm mistaken, the clojure one communicates with telnet clients who maintain a socket connect, but only relies on the basic libraries which ship with clojure. The scala one is a webapp that is sitting on top of a lot of specialized machinery provided by lift. They are both short chat applications in the new cool languages on the JVM, and both are neat code samples, but other than that they don't have much in common.
- KirinDave 17y agoDon't you think that is kind of outside the spirit of the original node.js submission?
- kikibobo69 17y agoSure, the machinery is different; I was responding to the terse elegance of it, not its self-containedness. I suppose yes it is outside the scope of the original submission, but (for me) still compelling.
- KirinDave 17y agoCertainly. Lift is an awesome framework. But this isn't a web framework competition. :) Perhaps you could write a basic chat server in Scala to show us? Really, I found this exercise quite fun. The programmer's equivalent of cotton candy.