trailfox

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by trailfox 13y ago
> The comparison is that Scala is to Java what C++ is to C. Which is pure opinion/speculation.
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by trailfox 13y ago
I happen to find str: String much more readable than String str.
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by trailfox 13y ago
I think you're confusing Scala and C++.
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by trailfox 13y ago
In our experience Scala has been a superb alternative for large Java projects. Practical experience vs. your opinion/speculation?
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by trailfox 13y ago
I use the defaults, and then set about removing all shortcuts from my desktop
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by trailfox 13y ago
IntelliJ plugin download stats: Scala 883,000 Kotlin 21,000
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by trailfox 13y ago
I know, but the .NET CLR has lagged the JVM for years in terms of performance, but its a few years since I did a comparison...
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by trailfox 13y ago
The most annoying thing about IntelliJ is the way it's keyboard shortcuts clash with virtually every keyboard shortcut of your average Linux distro. Other than that it's an awesome tool.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Scala implement tail call optimization in the compiler. In general the JVM has always outperformed the CLR: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
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by trailfox 13y ago
Better performance? What are you basing that on?
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by trailfox 13y ago
I would argue the exact opposite. Odersky has gone to great lengths to discourage overly defensive commentary and bashing of other languages: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/12498 I don't think it's u
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by trailfox 13y ago
I should also point out that it's a feature which I don't believe detracts from readability. It's pretty clear from looking at code which uses ST what it does. There are examples in this thread. It's a feature that you w
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by trailfox 13y ago
Removing structural typing wouldn't be an improvement to my mind. It's the sort of thing you use maybe once a year, but when you do it's extremely useful to have around. It's a bit like saying that removing the ternary c
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by trailfox 13y ago
The quality of the original "1-star" blog post was extremely low. Odersky sums it up well with: This week-end's edition is called "Scala - 1 Star - would not program again", and it's by someone who from readin
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by trailfox 13y ago
C# has various options (see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671231/linq-nhibernate-al... ) The Scala equivalent is called Slick, and it's the only SQL DSL that approaching anything near widespread use. I f
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by trailfox 13y ago
C# does that too. It's called LINQ and it's very popular.
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by trailfox 13y ago
That's pretty odd. What libraries were you using?
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by trailfox 13y ago
* You might be better off using a pre-release snapshot of Java 8 as a better Java. You'll get closures, functional collections, and better type inference. I bet Eclipse and Intellij support it better too.* You lose out on most of the f
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by trailfox 13y ago
For an "academic exercise" it's getting used pretty widely by the likes of Twitter, Foursquare, Netflix etc.
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by trailfox 13y ago
I would rather use almost anything else except the random DSL wasteland that is Scala In my experience very little Scala code uses DSLs. Learning Scala isn't that tricky for anyone who knows Java, which is a pretty big pool.
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by trailfox 13y ago
Kotlin hasn't even been released yet, and it looks just like Scala.
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Flagship Tablet Display Technology Shoot-Out(displaymate.com)
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by trailfox 13y ago
The tool doesn't include any of the c3 and i2 instance types yet.
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by trailfox 13y ago
It does look very interesting. I was surprised to learn that it cross-compiles to C before being compiled. I'd be even more interested if there was an IntelliJ plugin for Nimrod.
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by trailfox 13y ago
If I recall correctly Groovy was directly inspired by Python. I don't have a link, but I remember reading that the creator of Groovy was inspired after seeing a book on Python.
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by trailfox 13y ago
It was a few months ago so I can't remember the queries. I tried a few to compare now and didn't notice much difference between the two with the examples I tested with.
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by trailfox 13y ago
> How Redis+Memcached+Node.js+Go+MongoDB+MariaDB+postgres+Clojure helped my start-up scale (from 10 to 20 hits per day)
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by trailfox 13y ago
> Why Go Is Better Than You And Everything You Own And Why It Always Will Be
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by trailfox 13y ago
I can only pity those tasked with maintaining such systems.
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by trailfox 13y ago
The search results of Bing seemed very similar to DDG. It seemed to do a mediocre job if figuring out the context of my search. Google seemed to figure out the question behind my query. With Bing the results seemed to feel more like a regul

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