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by trailfox 13y ago
Interesting to see where Firefox is the most popular these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_by_most_used_web...
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by trailfox 13y ago
> I keep thinking with Scala though, I'm going to run into some really awful looking code one day from someone overly abusing all of its feature I also keep thinking that, but it never really seems to happen in my experience.
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by trailfox 13y ago
How long ago did it reach v1.0?
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by trailfox 13y ago
For many use cases OO Scala works just fine, functional code used where it makes sense. Our goal is to integrate with existing systems, not to seek purely functional code as a goal in and of itself.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Same experience here.
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by trailfox 13y ago
We haven't had issues with Scala's syntax. Point is that Haskell isn't a viable option for most use cases.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Does Haskell let me use the many Java libs that are used extensively internally in many organizations (including mine)?
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by trailfox 13y ago
Nice idea, but please give it a name that makes the language easy to discuss and search for. There's no way I'm going to work on Monday and discussing: 'did you see that new language that I have no idea how it's pronounc
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by trailfox 13y ago
IntelliJ and friends are great, but the default keymap is a train smash on most common Linux distros. Whoever thought ctrl+alt+right arrow was a good navigation shortcut?
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by trailfox 13y ago
That's not the sort of thing you'll commonly see in real world Scala code. It's the sort of thing that might be used internally by a library, but not likely something you will come across day-to-day in Scala code. Every langu
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by trailfox 13y ago
For those interested in learning Scala I'd recommend the free chapters from Scala for the Impatient: http://logic.cse.unt.edu/tarau/teaching/SCALA_DOCS/scala-for...
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by trailfox 13y ago
As a Scala programmer I find Ruby syntax complex and inscrutable, almost like Perl.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Perhaps he meant really good GCs in mainstream systems? It is a bit of an assertion on his part, but Java GCs are pretty advanced relative to most mainstream languages.
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by trailfox 13y ago
We're very happy using Scala. I have a mild interest in Go, but Scala def. first choice.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Thanks
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by trailfox 13y ago
> At no point have I seen Go programmers hype up the language and attack others. Perhaps not "attack", but Go advocates tend to be very defensive about any criticism.
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by trailfox 13y ago
> If you want a language which requires an IDE I didn't ask for a language which "requires" an IDE. I simply want to find a decent IDE for use when coding Go.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Is there even a decent IDE for Go?
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by trailfox 13y ago
In practice it's better suited to apps typically written in Java.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Might be funny if this gets a knee-jerk upvote by the people who think it's about golang.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Kotlin looks pretty nice (even as a dumbed-down Scala), but it hasn't even hit beta yet. I have yet to meet anyone actually using xtend.
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by trailfox 13y ago
>I guess I'm less intelligent than most of the 12 year old kids in your country I think you just hit the nail on the head.
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by trailfox 13y ago
If a language is 30x less efficient than another language then you would likely need 30x more servers. Many folk are simply not prepared to spend 30x more than they need to on hardware. It's the difference between 20 servers and 600 servers
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by trailfox 13y ago
Honestly, Scala is far more expressive than Go and much more mature. Scala is more complex, but it's never really been an issue for me or my fellow devs. I'm not sure that "Native" vs "virtual" is a valid point of comparison. Scala uses the
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by trailfox 13y ago
For many systems performance matters. Claiming that there is no difference between Ruby and C is just sticking your head in the sand.
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by trailfox 13y ago
You'd probably be better of with Scalatra then...
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by trailfox 13y ago
Assumptions and personal bias/preference it seems...
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by trailfox 13y ago
>Off all the top performers, Go seems to be the only sane choice to write a web app How so? There's Clojure, Scala and others perfectly good choices on the list. The max latency for Go is also very high compared to most others.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Most of them, yes. Most 12 year olds from my country are taught the names of all countries in the world and where to find them on a map and the names of the capital cities.
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by trailfox 13y ago
>Because the headline is written according to the expected understanding of the American reader. Not exactly a high bar it seems...

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