Xtend, incidentally, can be built with ant apparently. They're working on a howto. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Wright <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 17:07:49 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Yet another JVM lang: Extend
On 7 November 2011 16:41, Blazej Bucko <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't understand one thing: Why, when new statically typed language > with closures comes up, scala community (I assume that Simon is scala > enthusiast :)) calls it "half assed scala imitation"? I don't see this > kind of attitude from Groovy community. > Because Groovy had significantly different goals, James wrote it to be a lightweight glue & scripting language that would support core Java work, not something that could realistically be considered a replacement or used anywhere that performance was at all important. > Is scala one and only language and we must shoot everything else? > Scala is great and all, but there are other great languages. Maybe > Xtend will be better. Or at least have better tools :) > > "Tooling" means a great deal more than how friendly the Eclipse plugin is... If I have to fire up half of the eclipse IDE in my Continuous Integration/Deployment server just to build the thing, and if I can't build it at the command line, and if I can't use Maven/Rake/Gradle/SBT/whatever with it, then I'm afraid I'm going to have to take any claims of "better tooling" with a particularly large grain of salt. > Regards, > Blazej Bucko > > > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Simon Ochsenreither > <[email protected]> wrote: > > for(month <- year2011) > > yetAnotherHalfAssedScalaImitation += 1 > > > > :-) > > > > > -- 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. -- 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.
