Mark, thank you so much for sharing that :-) I certainly don't fear the functional though - I am wholeheartedly embracing it, I am just curious about the long-term future of Java (and OSGi). The JVM - in the form of things like Frege and Scala - certainly offers interesting possibilities in terms of functional programming.
The primary challenge facing me, is that I am having a hard time integrating classical, pure functional programming with the ad-hoc modularity that OSGi enables. A large part of functional programming is the provability of correctness etc, and this flies out the window when components can come and go. Interesting times... Dawid On 28/04/2014 05:55, Mark Derricutt wrote: > On 25 Apr 2014, at 21:28, Dawid Loubser wrote: > >> OSGi is an architecture that I so firmly believe in, but at the same time it exists in a world being ever-more influenced by weak typing (e.g. JavaScript, Lua) and functional programming (Haskell, Scala). > > Don't fear the functional code tho! > > * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDsuPdMptCU > > A short video I made awhile ago using Frege ( a Haskell variant for the JVM ) and OSGi. > > The modularity combination of type classes and dynamic bundle loading would appear to work hand in hand quite well. > > Mark >
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