thebluesky

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by thebluesky 15y ago
The poll results indicate that on the JVM JRuby trails Scala, Groovy and Clojure significantly. The indeed.com discussion probably excludes JRuby for the reasons you mention.
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by thebluesky 15y ago
While there are many corner cases which you have outlined, in the grand scheme of things job advert data is a reasonable indicator (and one of the few we have). In the case of languages with limited commercial adoption (Clojure, Haskell) th
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by thebluesky 15y ago
Interesting to see how three JVM languages have emerged from the pack. Scala and Groovy proving popular amongst Java developers. Clojure also with a substantial following, but less commercial adoption.
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by thebluesky 15y ago
Voting has only just started, but Scala in the lead for now :)
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by thebluesky 15y ago
This could be a rather interesting poll. Might provide some data around the popularity of alternate JVM languages rather speculating.
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by thebluesky 15y ago
Relevant video by Martin Odersky covering Scala 2.10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQNqIy5LdM Slides: http://mrkn.co/s/video_martin_odersky_what_s_next_for_scala,...
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by thebluesky 15y ago
That's quite an error for such a small piece of code... None of the following functions can be called with the arguments supplied: final fun <T:Any?,R:Any?> Array<T>.map(var result:Collection<R>,var transform:Functio
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by thebluesky 15y ago
Do you have data to back up that claim? The only example I've come across is Yammer. Real world adoption data paints a different picture, one of rapid adoption of Scala by both start-ups and more traditional organizations like banks: see:
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by thebluesky 15y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to describe Google, Facebook and Twitter's engineers as "blue collar". Sophisticated middleware is hardly a blue collar domain, definitely more "white collar".
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by thebluesky 15y ago
The "blue collar" crowd shifted to python/ruby/php a long time ago.
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by thebluesky 15y ago
Nice to see them dropping the silly "System.out" prefix for println. A minor point, but it was rather silly. See other Kotlin examples here: http://kotlin-demo.jetbrains.com/ Kotlin copies much of its design and syntax from earlier Scala
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by thebluesky 15y ago
Always interesting to read about real-world usage of different tools and languages. From the article: ... • MySQL (plus sharding) scales, apps don't. • Redis is amazing. • Scala apps perform fantastically. ... Some of the organization
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by thebluesky 15y ago
Sounds like it's trying to add structural subtyping via the back door.
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by thebluesky 15y ago
That's exactly the type of verbosity in Java that new languages should avoid. I'm a bit disappointed by Kotlin in general to be honest.
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by thebluesky 15y ago
Since Kotlin runs on the JVM surely it's also "fatally flawed" by your reckoning? Scala also targets LLVM: http://greedy.github.com/scala-llvm/ and .NET: http://www.scala-lang.org/node/10299
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by thebluesky 15y ago
It's also one of the key features of Turbo Pascal.
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by thebluesky 15y ago
I'd like to see greater integration into the libraries and commonly used types. Strings in Scala for example let you perform all manner of filtering and other functional operations. Collections in Scala also support operations like map, fil
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by thebluesky 15y ago
Looks like a mildly cleaned up Java, was expecting something a little more interesting. Don't see much in the way of functional programming or worthwhile changes vs Java. Was expecting a Scala competitor, but found a slightly better Java wi