Come on people, why do we have to turn every single language thread into Java vs Scala???? Its getting really annoyed and we all know like any religion no one will convert the other just by arguing. If you want to have a good useless infinite loop example for the next contest then this is it :)
I like both Scala and Java. Java has been my language of choice for 10 years and it is getting old. I really like the function aspect of Scala and its conciseness but on the other hand Scala sometime feels unnecessary complex and the tooling sucks. I do not have any problem to work on project with either language. Currently I am experimenting using Scala with Wicket and they seems to work well together. Personally I dont care about REPL. I spent a good 9 months of this and last year working on Erlang (hate it, not the functional part but the dynamic part), I probably spent total of 2 hours on REPL when I was learning the basic stuff. After that I just use the Erlang eclipse plugin and I will trade good debugger with REPL any time any day. I mean every developer that I work with have eclipse running all the time, most of time I actually have two instances running (different project different workspace). Experimenting in Eclipse is really not as bad as some of you said. I can see others have different experience though. I am not sure why we spend so much time arguing about languages? At the end of the day does language have that much impact to the end product??? Is PHP a superior language because Facebook uses it??? I understand that people tend to favor one language over the other but there is no need to trash the other language. I hate Erlang to the bone but I know it has its strength and respect people who love it. Maybe we should spend more time to talk about actual technology. Does no-sql movement lost steam (have not heard about it for a while)? HTML5. Javascript libraries such as node.js and backbone.js. Javascript/Coffescript vs dart. Gosh even Android vs IOS is probably better than this. Oh ... to the OP I agree that Javascript can be a great first language. I have been working with Javascript a lot recently and the simplicity and instant feedback are great plus to get people in. Once in they should learn other language. I can see people have problem to write good OO code if they stay in Javascript for too long. Happy holidays to you all!!!! -- 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.
