Don't forgot commercially backed. I've noticed some companies are hesitant to adopt a technology if they can't pay someone else to support it.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Oscar Picasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > For me: > > + very nice language: it's really a pleasure to code with scala > + very nice community: high quality discussions, very helpful, very smart > people, very clever answers without being condescending, very responsive > + good documentation (Programming with Scala) > + a very good web framework (lift) > + interesting testing libs: specs, ScaleCheck... > > - tools, tools, tools: eclipse plugin works when it wants which is not > often > - integration with java infrastructure could be better : lots of trials and > errors to try integrate maven + eclipse + scala for example (and still not > working very well) > - free documentation should be also in html > - is the scala community shrinking? it seems that the traffic in the scala > has decreased since about on year ago (on the other hand lift traffic seems > to have increased) > - not much evolution on the content of the scala site (besides the look and > feel) > - compiling is too slow > > In my opinion the +s are far more important than the -s, but the -s could > by a real barrier to a wider popularity. > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:55 PM, David Pollak < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> I just did a blog post about my two years in the Scala community. >> >> >> http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/83-Two-years-loving-Scala.html >> >> Thanks, >> >> David >> >> -- >> Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net >> Collaborative Task Management http://much4.us >> Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp >> Git some: http://github.com/dpp >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" 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/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
