rabbitfang

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by rabbitfang 14y ago
Yes. Endless XML configs, and a ton of overhead to get started. Anyone can get productive with Play in 5 minutes. Spring + Hibernate were smart choices in 2003, but no longer the case.
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
You do realise there is more than "renaming variables" to refactoring don't you?!?
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
XML may have nothing to do with Java, but some Java frameworks (e.g. Spring) are obsessed with it. Many (most?) Java devs don't even like Spring. Who in their right mind would want to write code to call constructors in XML? no type checking
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
JRuby is pretty nifty, still can't compare performance-wise to statically typed languages e.g. Scala: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al... Probably more comparable to Groovy in syntax and performance.
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
Google is heavily reliant on Java. LinkedIn and Twitter both use Scala and Java. I'm not really sure that pointing out that Google has some C++ code really disproves that Java is used heavily at google. Java is still very widely used, more
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
You were clear, but if you're going to compare languages you can't cherry pick which features to compare. You compared Java to C performance and then Java to Ruby in terms of expressiveness. Since Ruby does not have the performance of C and
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
You're criticizing Java for being slow, and then presenting Ruby as an alternative. You do realise that Java is up to 100 times faster than Ruby: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... . And on multicore systems Ja
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
Groovy, Scala + Clojure = next generation of languages being adopted by Java devs. All the things we love about Java combined with a more modern syntax.
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
...and that is why the latest generation of JVM languages such as Scala, Clojure and Groovy are so popular. Java the platform is extremely stable, highly optimized and heavily instrumented. Java is much less verbose than C++ (the main alter
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Scala adoption continues to climb rapidly(capecoder.wordpress.com)
3 points by rabbitfang 14y ago|0 comments
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
Play2 is released for production use and works with both Java and Scala. You've linked to an article which says essentially nothing. You're suggesting that Vert.x is more production ready when it was only released 3 days ago? http://vertxp
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
I'd look at Play framework V2 + Scala http://www.playframework.org/ and Vert.x http://vertxproject.wordpress.com/ (Scala support coming soon). Since you already know Ruby you may consider using JRuby or Groovy with Vert.x as other optio
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
Why would it surprise you that a statically typed language like Java on the highly optimized JVM is faster than Javascript? Any benchmark you care to look at should clearly shows JVM is much faster: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/be
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
+1 for Scala Might be nice to also see a FAQ about the differences between vert.x and Play 2
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Scala books being published at quite a rate(capecoder.wordpress.com)
20 points by rabbitfang 14y ago|6 comments
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
Regular Java is currently faster (up to 3x) than C# on mono: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al... ...but obviously on a phone it's going to be Dalvik not regular JVM We need to consider memory consumption too. D
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
Thanks. Will definitely check it out.
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Real world feedback from a Java dev using Scala(capecoder.wordpress.com)
64 points by rabbitfang 14y ago|16 comments
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
Thanks for the summary. Very exciting developments!
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
The Scala code for the same task gets the job done in half as many lines: http://capecoder.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/spellchecker-in-sc...
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by rabbitfang 14y ago
>Zimbabwe, Africa Off-topic, but it really shouldn't be necessary to provide a continent when naming a country e.g. Japan, Asia.
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by rabbitfang 15y ago
In the case of Tiobe one of the problems is that Scala programmers don't typically say "Scala programming", but rather "Programming Scala" or "Programming in Scala" which maps back to the book titles. Tiobe searches for the specific string
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by rabbitfang 15y ago
You may want to correct your spelling of Clojure: http://www.indeed.com/q-Closure-jobs.html
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Language popularity: It’s not about search engine result counts(capecoder.wordpress.com)
22 points by rabbitfang 15y ago|14 comments