kvtrew76557

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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
The Scala projects I've seen are not open-source, but some very interesting work being done in Scala in systems that might surprise you...
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Twitter has some nice Scala libraries too: https://engineering.twitter.com/opensource/projects?tags%5B%...
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
I'm glad to see that Spring, which features heavily in the Java top 100, doesn't even make the top 100 for Scala. In my experience many Scala developers were previously Java developers. It's rather telling that they are choos
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something about Clojure, but it looks completely and utterly foreign. As someone who didn't have much trouble learning a "complex" language like Scala I find Clojure really hard to fathom.
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Good question. Unlike most languages with which I am not yet familiar, Clojure looks like Greek. Most languages are at least somewhat readable. Perhaps I need to know Lisp to appreciate Clojure. Coming from a Java/Scala/Ruby/
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Still quite far behind what is provided by C# and Scala, among others. At least it's a step in the right direction. These are the first major language changes to Java in nearly a decade, say what you like about Oracle, but at least the
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
It's a pity the article didn't get more attention.
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Play 2: Great except it's Scala. Ruled out. The Play guys went to great trouble to ensure that both Java and Scala are fully supported. Perhaps consider being a bit more open-minded about your options. Scala is simply a more modern a
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
I'm currently deciding between learning Rust or Nimrod, having a good web framework would help Nimrod adoption.
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
A Lisp family language is hardly more approachable than Scala. I found Java -> Scala pretty smooth, but can't make head or tail of Clojure code as it looks completely different to languages I've used before.
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
I'd also like to see Nimrod in the results.
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
The first PHP result for the JSON test comes in at 31.7% of the performance of the top performer. PHP also occupies the bottom 3 worst slots.
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Rails fairs badly across the board. I'm afraid you're the one who's "lazily" linking in this case. Of course you can have good latency if you instantly 500, and process far fewer requests than the competition.
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
The numbers vary greatly, depending on which test you look at. In the plaintext search Go only comes in at 13th: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7...
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
It's been good to see the growth in the Scala community on many fronts. The Scala subreddit is starting to get quite lively. I've also encountering more developers using Scala at work rather than just something they use for side p
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
I've also been using IntelliJ for various large projects written in Scala, currently on the fence deciding whether upgrading to 13 worthwhile. Really hoping for an upgrade discount for all those who purchased IntelliJ in the "end
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Overall this is a very weak and one-sided blog post. Even a simple search would have answered his questions about why Scala doesn't use Hindley Milner type inference: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/4654 H
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
I happen to like Go, but the excessive marketing of Go on HN as a solution to every "problem" is tiresome.
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Unlike you I finished reading the Odersky book and am very easily "Getting Shit Done" much faster than I ever did in Ruby. It did take effort to learn the language, but it was worth it. Having apps running an order of magnitude fa
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Have the GC issues been resolved yet (particularly on 32 bit)?
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
I've developed and maintained multiple large systems in a team using various languages. I would much rather maintain a system written in Scala than either Java or various scripting languages we've used and the view is shared by
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
Google seems to have really lost the plot lately, forcing their policies and updates down our throats.
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
I'm rather excited about Nimrod, it actually looks a bit like Scala (pascal-style declarations). Scala has a lot of appeal for (most) organizations where the JVM is very widely used. I guess I tend to look at things from the position o
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by kvtrew76557 13y ago
As a software engineer I find Scala to be a very powerful tool, but one which takes some time to learn. I could see it being a useful teaching tool if they stay away from obscure corners of the language. I'm glad that they didn't