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by trailfox 13y ago
Always good to see such well reasoned technical discussion here on HN. You make a particularly well-reasoned point about the text in the title and how it affects the technical aspects of the VM.
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by trailfox 13y ago
In what way is this either "related" or "news", or even accurate?
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by trailfox 13y ago
Why would people "panic" if Oracle builds them a better VM or the tools to build a better Ruby/Python/Java VM? It's quite different to the CLR. The CLR lets you implement any language you like, as long as it can bas
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by trailfox 13y ago
Pick Scala if: -You think a fusion of OO and functional programming is the way of the future -Runtime tooling and advanced instrumentation support matter to you -You like having first-class IDE support -You want to work for the li
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by trailfox 13y ago
Sad to see Nokia going the way of the dodo.
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by trailfox 13y ago
> Seems like Elop stayed true to his nickname - of a trojan horse. Wonder if it was intentional to run Nokia into the ground or just sheer incompetence?
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by trailfox 13y ago
That "alert" is from over 2 months ago. Date: Jun 18 2013
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by trailfox 13y ago
...and the only way you learn how to write more elegant code is to start writing code...
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by trailfox 13y ago
> choice quotes from long texts have been used for Google bashing before, some earlier this week even Somebody on the Internet is wrong and said something bad about Google? How dare they! At what time did this serious offence occur?
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by trailfox 13y ago
Ok, I see. Technically a JIT compiles to native code too, so for a long running app there shouldn't be much difference. Both Go and Java are garbage collected, but the JVM has the more sophisticated GC.
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by trailfox 13y ago
A quick look at the language benchmark game, and Go varies between 7x slower than Java and approx. the same speed as Java (varies by test): http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t... I fail to see
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by trailfox 13y ago
With Go using 20 times less memory, I'd take Go any day since I can just throw in 20 more processes and up my throughput 5-10x. But of course, scaling like this takes a bit of design and the processes have to share nothing. That does
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by trailfox 13y ago
> I got somewhere between 2.0 and 2.2 "milliseconds per ping" for Scala 2.9 The latest Scala is 2.10, which has a number of optimizations over 2.9...
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by trailfox 13y ago
Mostly a discussion around one guy's vague and unsubstantiated criticisms of Scala.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Wow, a programming language compiler I don't have to pay for... Somehow not that exciting a development in 2013.
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by trailfox 13y ago
I have used OpenHashMap, but the results are mixed sometimes is much faster, other times it's much slower. It really depends on the use case.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Scala's immutable hashmap is about 4-5x slower than ju.HashMap for reads and 6-7x slower for inserts.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Version compatibility is definitely a pain point, but as painful as that is I'd still pick that over using regular Java.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Put and lookup are much slower vs ju.HashMap. For most use cases where the system is already multithreaded the parallel collections don't gain us anything. If you have a large read-only map being read by multiple threads (doing random
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by trailfox 13y ago
I guess it depends on your team. We didn't have much trouble with Java guys picking up Scala very quickly. Scala performance is on par with Java if you keep your wits about you, but you do have to be mindful of the code you write. Scal
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by trailfox 13y ago
After learning and using Scala there is no way I would ever voluntarily choose to use Java over Scala. Simply put it's a better Java than Java. I really like the new site design, not all that bothered about the logo. Maybe Scala need
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by trailfox 13y ago
> Experienced anarchists tend to have meetings because they get good at them and enjoy them. I don't think programmers generally "enjoy" meetings, no matter how experienced we are.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Same here, used Ubuntu for years until Unity came out and drove me back to Windows for desktop use.
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by trailfox 13y ago
I'm curious about the claim that Java influenced C, especially since Java is a much newer language.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Good book.
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by trailfox 13y ago
That's why guys who finish bottom of their class remember the most.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Might help to give it a well known open source license e.g. BSD, MIT, Apache
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by trailfox 13y ago
Ruby has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEBrick
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by trailfox 13y ago
Articles with titles containing 'Go' seem to get upvotes simply for including the magic word.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Firefox is very popular in central and north africa.

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