This is gonna be about verbosity of generics, isn't it?
Alexey --- On Tue, 5/5/09, Dave Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dave Watson <[email protected]> > Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Java as API language, its days numbered? > To: "The Java Posse" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 9:10 PM > What does this mean, exactly? Can you elaborate more about > the 85% of > your code that is boilerplate? > > Not trying to argue, I'm just very puzzled by what this > might mean.... > > On May 5, 5:27 pm, 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 > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
