>> - killer application (equivalent to Ruby on Rails for example) > > Akka
This definitely might drive some usage. But IMO you probably need a web framework to drive major adoption. And Lift from what I've seen ain't it. > >> >> - good IDE support > > IntelliJ is absolutely production ready, beta releases of Eclipse support > are catching up rapidly I'll take your word for it. > >> >> - have a much improved syntax/feature set, but not overly complex > > Such as adding closures, adding type inference, allowing symbolic method > names and adding an infix method call notation, dropping the restriction > that interfaces can't contain concrete methods, and removing checked > exceptions? Feature wise, scala is there. I don't think the syntax is nearly as approachable as (for example) Fantom though. >> - major backer > > Typesafe, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare, Amazon Internal usage doesn't count. They need to do things that actively promote the language (frameworks, conferences, training, etc) But yep, Scala is the language that comes in 2nd to groovy as coming closest to a Java successor. My gut says it's not the "one" though. -- 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.
