simono

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by simono 10y ago
Dotty will inevitably implement the same features with the same fundamental issues. This is not about some old stuff we all regret having in Scala, this is about new low-quality proposals. When they get rubberstamped, they will end up in bo
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by simono 10y ago
Don't think so. They won't be able to prevent the language from being run into the ground by SIP/SLIP/SPP committees. Anyway, getting told that I'm not qualified to tell people that their new language extension idea
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by simono 10y ago
> As an observer none of the powers that be took a liking to you calling them out The best way to avoid being called out for saying completely different things in public and private is not saying different things in public and private. I
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by simono 10y ago
Kotlin is a joke, but Scala's mismanagement and treatment of its contributors might be its undoing. Source: #1/#2 top active community contributor (depends on whether you count commits or locs in scala/scala) leaving Scala, b
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by simono 10y ago
I wonder how people come up with these pointless, overcomplicated tutorials...
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by simono 10y ago
Why do bloggers focus on lexing and parsing? These things should not take up 80% of the article about creating a programming language. This fascination with "how" to build something, without considering "what" and "
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by simono 10y ago
The article isn't very good, even the link to the 'official' page is outdated. Just use sbt-android and skip all the other nonsense. Compilation is impressively fast, as the plugin uses the information from incremental compil
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by simono 10y ago
Which issues did you experience?
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by simono 10y ago
I don't think the Scala-on-Android devs have any plans of giving up, they just took a wait-and-see approach until Google ships their new Jack/Jill stack: http://get-scala.org/2.12#scala-on-android There is no sens
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by simono 10y ago
In my experience it is. The sbt-android plugin is really amazing. It makes compiling with ProGuard enabled as fast as Gradle without ProGuard, due to the plugins integration of incremental compilation with ProGuard. Plus, there are quite a
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by simono 10y ago
I haven't announced anything and I haven't submitted this link to HN. I just added a comment to let people know that I might read and try to answer questions if they have any. This submission's title at least reads "rele
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by simono 10y ago
I'm the main author of this page (I took the "official" release notes and rewrote/extended them massively). Feel free to ask questions! (Please note that 2.12 hasn't been released yet.)
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by simono 10y ago
If I remember correctly, for 2.12 the compiler will generate additional forwarder methods, which mitigates the performance issues, but increases file size again. It's still a lot smaller than 2.11, but for instance the standard library
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by simono 10y ago
Not officially announced/released yet, but here are (better) release notes: http://get-scala.org/2.12