thebluesky
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Comment · 13 years ago
Netbeans started getting some major traction around the 2005 - 2007 timeframe, but seems to have lost ground since the Oracle takeover. Limited support for Ruby/JRuby and virtually non-existent Scala support caused me to ditch it after many years of use.
Comment · 13 years ago
Migration to Scala 2.10
Looking forward to the new language features and performance improvements :)
Comment · 13 years ago
Not really a prediction if it's something he was already observing.
Comment · 13 years ago
Is the source available anywhere?
1.5M locally or over a network? What is the size of each message?
Comment · 13 years ago
+1 for Spring not aging well
The only thing that makes me happy in the Java world lately is Scala. It has it's flaws but is much more pleasant that old school Java.
Comment · 14 years ago
> I bet my money on Kotlin.
Two weeks ago you were betting your money on Clojure: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981587
Comment · 14 years ago
> C# was here to stay from the beginning, we love it in the present and we will use it more and more in the future.
This article would have received a bit more respect if it had been a bit more subtle about the C# cheerleading.
Comment · 14 years ago
> which Sun had sewed the crap out of them for
Speaking of spelling mistakes...
Comment · 14 years ago
"knew" not "new"
Comment · 14 years ago
Many of the folks using Scala are experienced Java developers, your posts seem to be based on personal speculation rather than actual facts.
Comment · 14 years ago
I only develop on Linux, think you got confused by the way I phrased it. I meant that hardly anyone uses the OpenJDK package, not that hardly anyone uses Linux.
Comment · 14 years ago
The gains for this approach are usually marginal as disk IO is expensive vs generating code in memory using the JIT.
Comment · 14 years ago
In all seriousness most Java devs. regard the OpenJDK package as "that weird jvm that comes with the OS that nobody actually uses". First thing we do is download the latest JDK from Sunoracle.
Comment · 14 years ago
Scala provides tail call optimization and invoke dynamic has been in the JVM for years (since JDK7). The JVM is also considerably faster than the CLR and unlike Mono is heavily used in industry.
Comment · 14 years ago
My thoughts exactly. Scala seems to be the JVM language gaining the most traction at the moment. The JVM is an extremely impressive piece of engineering. Very reliable, great tooling and it's the fastest VM out there for any language.
After 17 years of Java the language many Java devs. have built up skills around the JVM and java class libraries. Many of us are now looking for a more modern language which lets us leverage our existing knowledge. Scala + friends are pretty hard to ignore these days.