mynameisme

"I don't have any good ideas"

Sounds like a good reason to me.

Yeah, it's a joke that Rust (which I think will be a great language, but all of the syntax hasn't even been decided yet) is being considered, when Java and friends are not.

Really, this article is about "I want to rewrite my program in the newest, coolest language", not about which is the best tool for the job. And that's fine, but the author should present it that way.

The JVM is a crazy moving target? Can you give an example of that please?

It doesn't matter, they're all fine. You aren't going to succeed or fail based on the framework choice. Just use whatever you know. The only non agnostic advice is for you to use to use Postgres. Don't use something like Mongo, it's trying to solve problems you don't even have.

I think you will have a very hard time getting people to use this by making them sign up. You should use a captcha instead. I also don't think most people would find unsolicited, anonymous sex tips that useful, but Cosmo sells, so there could be an audience.

edit: Or is it supposed to more like a post secret type thing?

Or, accidentally click too many times, skipping a slide?

I love picking on PHP as much as anyone else, but you can write just as terrible code in Python as any other dynamically typed language. Those Django and Rails projects can grow into monstrosities as well.

Saying Clojure is a counter example kinda ignores the big reason companies don't want to use Lisp/Haskell/etc. When you're on the JVM, you get to use that gigantic collection of Java libraries and Java community for almost no downside. With Common Lisp/Scheme, so much time is spent reinventing wheels due to smaller communities that they're not worth using for larger projects, in my opinion. Also with Clojure, you always fairly easily port to Java if you decide things aren't going as planned a couple of years down the line, as CodeHaus did with Scala. Don't get me wrong, I think Clojure is by far the best Lisp to choose out there for a product, but that's mainly because it has its big "Java ogre" brother standing behind it.

edit: And also, you don't need to write Java in a factories on top of factories style just because some choose to do that. The same is even more true of xml configuration.

In that case, I'll be on the look out when it's released!

drivebyacct2, you're hell banned

Ignoring any open vs. closed source arguments, this kind of thing would work much better as library than some third party service. There's no way I'd make an application that depended on a third party service over the internet for basic UI interaction.

Also, having the modal boxes jump around is kind of annoying.

I have, and it works ok when there is a ton of concurrent users. But on the other hand, I don't think the UX of telescope is any better than reddit's and in some ways worse (example: clicking on a post with a large amount of comments cause the page to pause without any visual feedback. This could be fixed, but is any better than just a regular link?)