On 29 March 2011 12:20, Peter A Pilgrim <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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 > > I'm personally aware of a few banks running skunkworks Scala projects, you're also seeing a lot of interest from hedge funds and from companies that sell to hedge funds. On top of this are some very large household-name media companies, a few firms involved in online gaming, and at least two companies working with SatNav/GPS. I'm sadly not at liberty to name names here, but I CAN confirm that EDF trading has offices in the UK where they're working with Scala, and that the NHS has some Scala in production. > > 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. > > -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] <[email protected]>mail: [email protected] vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright twitter: @thecoda "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- 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.
