I'm sure Scala has plenty of tangible benfits, but you can make similar cases for most other programming languages and it is all firmly in the realm of developer preference.
If you're looking for the hot jobs/sklls of tomorrow, finding new applications of technology is far more relevant than any specific programming language or tool. On Dec 8, 4:34 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
