soc88

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121.
by soc88 15y ago
> ... I'm betting on a new language that combines the benefits of static&dynamic, object&functional programming Like Scala? Already 8 years old.
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by soc88 15y ago
> The GC is not suited to functional programs (lots of small, short-lived allocations) WUT? That's _exactly_ the thing the GC is good at, and it's that way not since yesterday. The limiting factor is the speed of allocation (no GC invol
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by soc88 15y ago
For all means — learn the language — you can only profit from it whether you decide to use it or not. In my experience, the language is built by people who really want to make things work. They do all the painful work to make even the most
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by soc88 15y ago
I really wonder where you found “some_obj open_!” ... that looks like Ruby.
125.
by soc88 15y ago
Isn't that what Scala already does quite successfully for a while now?
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by soc88 15y ago
Did you have a look at Scala? - There are only properties, no fields or other stuff. This means you can replace a method with a constant easily, or add your own setter to a mutable property later without breaking source or binary compatibil
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by soc88 15y ago
This has probably been the most senseless post I will read in a while: - C only got a memory model in C11. So you can't be sure your code does what you think it does, without compiling and testing with every compiler for every platform you
128.
by soc88 15y ago
No problem. :-) If you have any questions, just ask.
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by soc88 15y ago
Just wondering ... what is "large enough developer base"? If you are hiring, you are not hiring 10000 people, you are hiring one or two people. If you can choose between a pool of 10000 developers in PHP and 100 in Haskell (whatever...) you
130.
by soc88 15y ago
I wonder how much effort it took you to ignore all the websites which are directly fed from GitHub. :-)
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by soc88 15y ago
I don't understand the points about Scala here. Scala has pretty much the same strategy as C#. In fact, the "big breakage" in Scala everyone loves to cite was the addition of better collections. Just like C# did in 2.0 and now finally drops
132.
by soc88 15y ago
The same is pretty much true with Scala. The only exception where the signatures are really long and complex are parts of the collection infrastructure, because Scala developers tried to make it work as intuitively for users as possible: E.
133.
by soc88 15y ago
I think many people share some concerns about macros, especially the need for good error messages. A far as I know Scala's language designers have been against including macros for a long time. So the proposal for macros has to be damn good
134.
by soc88 15y ago
Does this make _any_ sense? Normally you introduce stuff having "profund effect"s on the whole ecosystem _before_ you release something as "stable". Maybe the Go devs want to repeat the Java generics story ...
135.
by soc88 15y ago
Why would it be bad?
136.
by soc88 15y ago
This looks pretty much like standard JPA stuff.
137.
by soc88 15y ago
> You can now setup a complete OS X develop environment with a single 171.7 MB package download. And then, I LOLed.
138.
by soc88 15y ago
Great sarcasm. :-)
139.
by soc88 15y ago
Attention to detail :-)
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by soc88 15y ago
Sometimes I just think Scala sucks at marketing – completely. - I think that especially the adjustments and features in the upcoming Scala 2.10 address real-world requirements like performance, reflection and database access. - Scala compil
141.
by soc88 15y ago
No. What I tried to say is that whether they make it work or not just tells a lot if they are willing to go the "extra mile" for their developers.
142.
by soc88 15y ago
I'm not sure that Java 8 won't render Kotlin largely irrelevant.
143.
by soc88 15y ago
Is this a theoretical thought or a practical consideration? I think the Java ecosystem needs a good, mature language now ... and I fear Kotlin is still at least half a decade away from being stable. While Kotlin compares nicely to Java 7, w
144.
by soc88 15y ago
The thing frightening me about Ceylon and Kotlin is that they both seem to have that the "language design is hard, let's go shopping" approach which burdens developers with stuff only the language designer should care about. I will certainl
145.
by soc88 15y ago
If the language is "much simpler than Scala", why do I get stuff like this? :-) http://imgur.com/EaxXZ
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by soc88 15y ago
Really? Didn't see that. Is this a political or a technical comment? When building highly-scalable and stable systems, there isn't much except the JVM. Sure, for some corner cases Erlang might be a solution and if reliability is less import
147.
by soc88 15y ago
Let me guess? Nothing can match iOS? Edit: Read it. 80% of the text is basically “well, that's nice” and in the last 20% the author looks frantically for reasons why iOS is still better. Fanboys never surprise me ...
148.
by soc88 15y ago
Am I the only one thinking that charging huge amount of money for education is a net loss for society?
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by soc88 15y ago
Oh c'mon. I know and read that message too. How many people else did? Not many. It is not like someone like dpp doesn't know how to get the right audience for his issues. Additionally this wouldn't have been a solution as the domain still r
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by soc88 15y ago
I think responses will be less friendly if the only communication channel available is limited to 140 letters, that's just a limitation of the medium. Responses towards constructive criticism have mostly been friendly, honest and helpful, I

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