llemiengre

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by llemiengre 12y ago
Honestly Kotlin has 80% of the complexity of Scala, 20% of the functionality, almost no library ecosystem and 0 stable releases. I don't know why so many people consider it a serious choice. If you want java with type inference you can
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by llemiengre 12y ago
Your criteria make it impossible to use a language that came 'out of academia'. The problem is of course that there is no serious jvm language that can really fill the niche that scala has created. If you look at the top libraries
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by llemiengre 12y ago
As much as I would like to like technologies like quasar & pulsar, having a guy like pron work on it is enough to scare me away. Bashing the competition with FUD is never acceptable for me.
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by llemiengre 12y ago
He knows what he is talking about & his description matches the explanation by Brian Goetz. So unless I'm missing something, please be specific.
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by llemiengre 13y ago
This is no longer the case, in Scala 2.8 they were replaced with persistent collections based on the work by Phil Bagwell, afaik they are faster than the old implementation. Didn't the old implementation have issues when you started sh
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by llemiengre 13y ago
I may be wrong but afaik java 8 has been delayed once ( http://mreinhold.org/blog/secure-the-train )
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5 myths about actors, an interview with Dr. Roland Kuhn (Akka tech lead)(tech.kinja.com)
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by llemiengre 13y ago
Talk about the organizational struggles at his previous company.