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by jbergens 12y ago
I think Java was almost killed by not having native look and feel in Swing. There is probably still a lot more desktop applications written with native Windows look and feel than with Qt or Java. It is still a problem with mobile apps that
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by jbergens 12y ago
As a sidenote, Michael Stonebreaker himself is nowdays building VoltDb which is a memory-db that he thinks is much more evolved than relational systems. I havn't used it but it looks interesting. I did try OrigoDb which is an open sour
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But if the storage is a storage library the developers wouldn't be reinventing it every time. And if a new technolgy came along it might be easier to start using it than to say that all applications in an organization must use the same
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by jbergens 12y ago
With some small changes to SQL you can get something similar that probably gets closer to what he describes. Seems to be called NewSql in a lot of cases. One thing some people like with sql is that the query engine translates the language t
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by jbergens 12y ago
You can look at all the open source databases that are out there. You can also look at things like FoundationDb and their SQL layer. It shows how you can build a relational api on top of a NoSql db with transactions. I think that will be op
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by jbergens 12y ago
Check out examples of using TypeScript with Angular (or DartAngular). Gives you a lot of benefits today. Personally I think Angular is great but React is even better and I will probably use the latter for my next project if I can choose.
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If you watch the keynote video about AtScript you'll see that they describe AtScript as a superset of TypeScript 2. They add features they think are missing but are trying to keep the syntax wherever possible (actually they hope that
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There seems to be things related to Angular that would not work without the annotations. That means the comments you suggest would have to be parsed, otherwise your Angular code would break.
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You also get a step-wise path to rewrite the applications. Going to Scala would probably be a complete re-write which is risky and time consuming. I don't think Scala usage will grow much more now that Java 8 is released. The benefits
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by jbergens 12y ago
C# has improved a lot faster than Java the last 5-6 years. I would say it is has been a much better language until recently when Java 8 was released. Now they are more equal with Java probably having some advantages since it was the last to
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I suppose the value is that you don't have to rewrite your application logic multiple times. That takes time even if you're fluent in all languages. It is also a duplicatio which increases the risk of later bugs due to not doing a
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They are working on .NET Native which does some of that. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/02/announcing...
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by jbergens 12y ago
I think a good refactring tool is one of the best ways to improve productivity for a developer. When you have a strongly statically typed language it should be possible to create really good refactoring tools. They don't have to exist
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I think it is great that they hade the courage to redo something that wasn't working for them anymore.
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But one of the nice things with Angular is that for small things you can get away with almost no code at all, small controllers that isn't really depending on each other for example. It is when you start on a larger system you have to
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by jbergens 12y ago
On the other hand I had to develop a small admin framework and decided to do it with server rendering since I thought it would be easier. I soon found all the small details I needed to think about and that there were a number of server side
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by jbergens 12y ago
I think promises are hard to test regardless of framework. As a side note most Angular examples seems to do more functional testing than unit testing since they don't mock many other services.
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Actually I think there are a few metrics that may be interesting. And different teams and organisations may put different weight to each metric. Have you seen Sarah Mei's talk about metrics and choosing a technology? She talks about Ru
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It is also a very productive solution to front-end development. Regarding the mix of logic and views there seems to be more and more projects that thinks this is ok. React also mixes the two, maybe even harder than Angular. If you want to c
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by jbergens 12y ago
I agree with this. I also somethings think that I use the type system the most when I am refactoring/redesigning code and at that time I might be sending a bool instead of an int as someone wrote which is being caught by any good type
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by jbergens 12y ago
It looks interesting but I wonder how it works if you have to filter or search for records when you have many records. I did not see any query language only iterating through all records and filtering in memory.
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This is what we do and it worked great until iOS8 came along. Read more about some problems here http://www.raymondcamden.com/2014/9/25/IndexedDB-on-iOS-8--B...
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I think that "better than Dart" is an opinion that is not shared by everyone. Personally I think Dart is better but also more different than javascript which makes it a bit harder to learn. As you said, a lot of developers on the
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It would also be nice if Apple could develop a Safari for Windows. Right now we have javascript bugs we cannot debug without buying a Mac.
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The´re a bit different. Actaully the AngularDart has features that 1.3 don't have, like the new router, and I'm sure there is something in 1.3 that don't exist in AngularDart. But AngularDart seems to be the more "advanc
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They probably mean that you are solving problems, real world and other, but you don't really need features like generics to do the "real world" part. Their proof is in things they have done, projects they have completed. If m
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You should also consider how much it costs you to miss a part of a process that is manually carried out but that could be automated. If it really expensive to miss something then automation might be a good idea even for simple tasks.
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You must find the corporate developer who cares ;-) http://steve-yegge.blogspot.se/2010/12/haskell-researchers-a... And then maybe try to get more like him/her.
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by jbergens 12y ago
It was a great article! Very nice to read about how someone else thinks when making descisions. Regarding your choice I think you should look a little bit more at javascript frameworks like Mithril and React, they can be used on the server