Re: [jug-discussion] Google's Wire Format Goes Open Source

2008-07-10 Thread Chad Woolley
These kids and their new-fangled protocols. XML was good enough for my grandfather, and it's good enough for me! Why, we had to make our angle brackets out of two sticks and baling wire... On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Warner Onstine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very cool Nick, thanks for sha

Re: [jug-discussion] Google's Wire Format Goes Open Source

2008-07-10 Thread Warner Onstine
Very cool Nick, thanks for sharing! -warner On Jul 10, 2008, at 3:15 PM, nlesiecki wrote: This is pretty cool: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/protocol-buffers- googles-data.html Protocol buffers are *the* lingua franca for RPCs, structured data storage, and just about any

[jug-discussion] Google's Wire Format Goes Open Source

2008-07-10 Thread nlesiecki
This is pretty cool: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/protocol-buffers-googles-data.html Protocol buffers are *the* lingua franca for RPCs, structured data storage, and just about any data sharing you can think of at Google. If you're building a distributed system and want to pa

[jug-discussion] IntelliJ Idea (was: Some thoughts on Scala)

2008-07-10 Thread Chad Woolley
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_dmitry_jemerov.html I have to admit, Idea is a very nice IDE, especially for Java. I think it blows away Eclipse/NetBeans in most areas, except price (it isn't free). At

[jug-discussion] Some thoughts on Scala

2008-07-10 Thread Thomas Hicks
As a follow-up to my (relatively) recent presentation on Scala, I was interested to see these comments by the lead developer of JetBrains' IntelliJ on the difficulty of supporting Scala in an IDE: http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2008_dmitry_jemerov.html Even more interesting is (my