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by gavinking 13y ago
> While this is interesting, is it enforced by the compiler? Of course. That's the whole point. I really think you've missed the nature of Ceylon. Don't imagine, that just because it has a syntax that looks friendly and ha
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by gavinking 13y ago
Don't know anything about it. But it's good that there's a revival of interest in languages for scientific computing. When I was in uni all we had was Fortran :-/
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by gavinking 13y ago
Cheers, Martin, thanks for the note, I appreciate it! Well, there's already a couple of things we learned from you guys: FTR, Scala was the first place I ever saw declaration-site variance, which rocks. It's also the language that
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by gavinking 13y ago
Heh, we'll have to post more commercials about how great we are, instead of always being so intensely self-critical ;-)
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by gavinking 13y ago
> So having to write type annotations all the time is an advantage for you? Well, there are very interesting tradeoffs here. If you want to go the "whole hog", i.e. HM type inference, where you don't need to annotate the t
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by gavinking 13y ago
Actually we're just talking about two different ways to represent the same concept. In the ML-derived languages, which traditionally did not have first-class union types - which I assume derives from the fact that they don't have
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by gavinking 13y ago
> Also, Kotlin already has kickass IDE support. _Please_ try Ceylon IDE, and let us know where it's nonasskicking. We've worked very, very hard on it, and we think we have something really useful and usable, but of course we ve
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by gavinking 13y ago
Again, nullable types are not "baked into" the language. They are syntax sugar for a union type. Also, Ceylon doesn't need Either, since that is just a workaround for not having union types. Seriously, union and intersection
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by gavinking 13y ago
>> Any examples of confusing Haskell compiler errors? I personally haven't seen any memorably confusing compiler errors from Haskell. Have you seen any with Haskell or is that just something you've heard about? > No, I ad
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by gavinking 13y ago
> What's the point of having Nullables if we're still forced to do glorified if(*.isNull) ... else ... checks? I'd much rather use Scala's Option type that has Map and GetOrElse already baked in. Sorry, but Option is
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by gavinking 13y ago
> Modules? Meh. The OSGi thing has always struck me as hideously overengineered And that's _exactly_ why you need modularity built into the ecosystem. OSGi and Maven _are_ hideously overengineered, and they're overengineered be
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by gavinking 13y ago
No, we've still been concentrating on getting the underlying bits-n-pieces of a platform together. Hell, we still lack some little things like, oh, um, i18n ... text formatting ... transactions. Little things like that. Ahem. There&#x2
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by gavinking 13y ago
Hi, I guess two killer features that we think make all the difference are: - the central place that modularity plays in the whole architecture, and - the fact that the JavaScript VM is a first-class citizen. While I don't doubt that yo
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First production release of Ceylon language(ceylon-lang.org)
23 points by gavinking 13y ago|6 comments
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by gavinking 13y ago
FTR, I've been emailed by quite a number of Sri Lankan citizens who were very happy about the name of the project. But you can't please everyone, I suppose. Also, FTR, Sri Lanka has been an independent nation for _65 years_. If it
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Ceylon M5 released(ceylon-lang.org)
2 points by gavinking 14y ago|0 comments
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Ceylon M3 and Ceylon IDE M3 released(ceylon-lang.org)
1 points by gavinking 14y ago|0 comments
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by gavinking 15y ago
Hi folks, if you have any questions/feedback about the language or this release or our future plans, please ask away, I'll monitor this thread.