Hi all, For me there is just the one: Scala, the marriage of object oriented with functional is awesome.
Arco Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > For my CommunityOne talk...how about everyone posts five "interesting" > JVM language projects. This can certainly include languages that aren't > under active development right now or that don't have a large following. > I just want to gather a list of languages that "we implementers" and JVM > language enthusiasts think the world should know about (and which are > good examples of the work we're doing on VM). > > These do not represent languages you think are the "best" or "most > important" or anything like that, so be honest. It's just going to be > added to a flat list, probably in alphabetical order. > > Here's my top five "interesting" language projects: > > JRuby - pushing the bounds of class generation and dynamic invocation > perf, as well as pulling a whole other platform into the JVM ecosystem > > Groovy - providing almost all Java language features and two-way > integration in addition to many (most?) dynamic language features found > in languages like Ruby. > > Jython - A second opportunity to pull a whole platform into the JVM > world, and a very receptive Python community that doesn't hate anything > with a J in it > > Scala - Not obvious? Solid integration with Java and object/functional > goodness. > > Duby - Ok, I'm biased, but if I ever get time to work on it Duby could > marry Ruby syntax with a full complement of Java features and local type > inference. Exactly what I've been looking for. > > - Charlie > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
