thevegetarian

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by thevegetarian 15y ago
Ruby the language isn't bad, but the VM is very primitive.
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by thevegetarian 15y ago
That's a lot like arguing that since my C++ code hasn't segfaulted or leaked memory in 10 years that garbage collection in Java is essentially pointless. I also don't see much need for classes in that new-fangled C++ thing since my assemble
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by thevegetarian 15y ago
Very important feature that. I usually choose my language based on such important considerations. Busy deleting my Scala code as I write this and rewriting it into Java code 5-10 times the size so I don't have to suffer from being confused
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by thevegetarian 15y ago
Commonly used and popular are not the same thing. I happen to know a number of developers who hate Java, but code in Java for a living. By popular I mean number of developers who actually enjoy using the language. There are better ways to m
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by thevegetarian 15y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2952732/samples-of-scala-...
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by thevegetarian 15y ago
The popularity of a language is important. If developers don't like a language they won't use it. Look at Ruby a few years ago as an example of a popular language which was hardly used which became on of the most widely used scripting langu
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by thevegetarian 15y ago
According to Wikipedia work on Nice slowed around 6 years ago... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(programming_language)
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by thevegetarian 15y ago
Xtend and Ceylon faring extremely badly, Kotlin only slightly better. Looks like a 2 horse race with Scala and Clojure in front.
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by thevegetarian 15y ago
Not so fast... Clojure also getting some votes.