So we take the proven reliability of Functional Programming, as demonstrated by Erlang And deploy it on a near-ubiquitous corporate JVM ecosystem with about as much pain as adding a dependency to commons bean-utils. As an incidental benefit, the developers are spared 2/3 of their code, which was just boilerplate anyway - thus making the thing easier to maintain.
I don't think any of this is "too abstract and geeky", or just a research toy, there are some definite high-visibility benefits to be had here. Unless you believe that concepts like "time to market" or "system downtime" are just inconsequential academic trivialities. I'm in total agreement though that a "hot product", such as twitter, would do wonders for the adoption of Scala On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:45 PM, MassH <[email protected]> wrote: > That's exactly the kind of "out of touch" I was thinking about. > > “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be > statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. > (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/06stats.html) > > That sounds a lot more plausible and that's the type of discussion > that isn't happening over here. > > Scala is an abstract, computer geek, research toy. > > You need a hot market, a hot product, and a revenue stream or a > realistic chance of getting one first, and then toolset and > implementation issues like choice of programming language follow. > > On Dec 8, 1:14 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But this group is largely out of touch with the opportunities and > > > demands of the industry. Where is there money to be made? Where are > > > the best jobs of today and tomorrow? What are the most important > > > skills to learn? > > > > Scala...? Please be Scala! > > -- > > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- 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.
