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Comment by Negative1

This is exciting but I've been burned in the past. Your commit graph seems to show you're serious so I hope you stick with it.

Will probably have more questions after I browse through the code but some basics: Q: How much of the collections library is covered with full support? Partial support? NYI w/ ETA? Q: Cross-platform support? If I wanted to run this on iOS and Android today, what do I have to do? What about on Windows or OSX? Q: How does GC work? Is there a way to take more control over GC for Scala objects? Q: Is it possible to ‘link’ in external dependencies, i.e. Joda Time. How do I do this right now? Q: Does the compiler use a translation layer? If so, is it consistent with Java 7 or 8?

On another note, the c extern stuff is excellent — exactly what I’d like to see for portability and performance (without the headache of something like the JNI).

parent Negative1 10 years ago

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