On Mar 29, 11:37 am, Martijn Verburg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Peter, > > Well since you're form London as well I assume you've caught the news > of the Guardian moving some of its backend to Scala?
Yes I know about the Guardian. I went to their presentation in January. The situation internationally is where I am at ... and I do want this debate to be censored. > > There's a bunch of businesses that are also starting to investigate > polyglot programming, one investment bank I know for example is using > Clojure for statistical log analysis. > Interesting, when I asked said investment banks about their potential Scala opportunities, the answer is silence ... so you can hear my incandescence rising ... I do not want to deflect the opinions of other > There's also a ton of small businesses and start ups blending various > languages on the JVM (using Grails to build their UI for example), you > only have to look a the Skillsmatter job board to see that trend > increasing (even companies like Sky and the BBC). I am sure internationally many people are aware of the Skillsmatter job board btw > > Cheers, > Martijn > > On 29 March 2011 11:27, Peter A Pilgrim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey All > > > Which companies / organisation are using alternative JVM languages? > > What is the ratio of the alternative JVM languages to pure Java > > programming languages in such organisations? > > Perhaps organisation is too broad grain, what about teams, I would be > > interested in that too. > > > I am trying to find out how much "The Moving Feast" is actually moving > > in my normal domain, which happens to be banking, and outside my > > comfort zone. > > > I read a lot of interesting blogs being down on polyglot programming > > recently. Some alternative JVM langauges like Scala are too complex > > and that DSLs (available in Groovy and Scala) are useless for big > > projects and multiple team projects. > > > Anyhow I thought that I would pose this question to larger audience. > -- 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.
