I totally agree.


On May 6, 7:27 am, Viktor Klang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings posse,
>
> having spent more than half a decade writing API:s in Java I feel that since
> Java 5 was introduced, more and more time has to be spent writing
> boilerplate API code to try to save the API consumers from jumping through
> hoops in order to get stuff done. Because we all want easily consumable
> libraries, don't we?
>
> Having jumped onto the Scala bandwagon about 1½ years ago I feel like the
> ratio of business end code of Java is appro 15% while in Scala it's more
> like 65%
>
> <observation>You can most likely substitute "Scala" in the text below with
> any non-Java JVM language</observation>
>
> With Scala getting more and more cleaner to be consumed by Java code, isn't
> there plenty of good reasons to switch to Scala for library code, while
> letting the application developers stay i Java-land?
>
> --
> Viktor Klang
> Known from the Internet
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