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As the author of the Android app, it's pretty interesting and exciting to see an article on this. The project was an attempt to save or at least document this language which might go extinct soon, as many others in the region did. If anyone is interested in learning more about the language or the project itself, you can contact me and I can put you in touch with the project owners.

Thanks for these, but I'd still say "Don't forget Guava".

"Many developers look at NoSQL engines—such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, or Hadoop" Noone uses Hadoop as a database. On the other hand, HBase which uses HDFS as underlying storage is a great NoSQL database that we use in production.

Nothing new here. As the article mentions, it's the Babelfish from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I've wanted to build one myself since I read the book, but the fundamental problem of machines translating languages is still a very hard problem. This thing won't work.

I like the write-up, but I disagree with the reasoning to avoid STM. It sounds a lot like "avoid ConcurrentHashMap in Java". It's true that web applications mostly persist their data in a database or some other persistent structure, and obviously an STM or a ConcurrentHashMap would not do you any good for that. However; if you are working with in-memory data, then STM is a very valuable tool just like ConcurrenthHashMap is.

I like the fact that you tied the Watson api and the Telegram api together in a simple app, but it's a bit far-fetched to claim that "building intelligent bots is not too hard" based on this example.

What's a homocide?

Loved reading the book.

Examples look great with Java 8. Very excited to try version 3.

No lander?? :-(

Appreciate the article and the similarities that you point out between Rust and Clojure but I would not say syntax is one of them.

Impala, imitating Google's Dremel, is specifically designed for OLAP scenarios with its columnar storage structure and the compression algorithms that go along with it. This is not a fair comparison. Try doing OLTP with Impala and you'll see what I mean.

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