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It seems to me that the best solution here is to split the single file into one js file for each package. A big part of that file is the implementation of the metamodel, and it's v…

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>> Then consider changing the Ceylon website because it's just full of FUD about replacing the ecosystem It is not. You're a fabulist. Your behavior on this thread is worse than ob…

>> none of the standard Java generic classes are first-class citizens in Ceylon world, because they don't have the reified runtime type information This is just not true. In Ceylon…

Earlier today I, in all sincerity, invited you to our Gitter channel, where there's always people discussing this stuff night and day. That invitation is still there. You're welcom…

It's just a getter. Lots of languages have getters.

ceylon.locale is also shaping up to be really useful. Localization in JS is just terrible.

So, that's a good example: ceylon.time is implemented in pure Ceylon, and is totally cross-platform.

Well where there is a big difference between the underlying capabilities of the platform, differences are unavoidable. I mean, examples of things that are cross-platform in Ceylon:…

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Yes, it's one good way to think about how they fit into the whole ecosystem of the language. Thanks.

Would you please open an issue here with the things you would like changed: https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon-lang.org/issues Thanks.

Now you're just lying. You said: "The problem with reified generics isn't their efficiency, but that they don't play nice with other generic types on the platform (which is the vas…

Sure. So I'll give you one very over-simplistic example. Let's assume that T is an unknown type (a type parameter). You can form types like Object&T, and if T is an optional type o…

"Another way to look at it is that Ceylon was designed to appeal to Scala people" This is quite clearly not true, and yet another assertion that you just made up and stated as fact…

Well it should be very clear, that if you believe that Ceylon has a problem interoperating with Java's unreified generics, that you don't know enough about Ceylon to be able to com…

By the way, pron, as more general complaint, your comments about Ceylon are always very uninformed, but you state them as fact. How about you actually spend some time learning the …

"The problem with reified generics isn't their efficiency, but that they don't play nice with other generic types on the platform (which is the vast majority)." This is simply nons…

Well the thing is that Ceylon offers fantastically smooth interop with both Java and JavaScript. That's one of it's main selling features for most people.

This is what a specification looks like: http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.1/spec/html_single/

What has happened to our culture? People are actually proud of being too lazy to read anything longer that a tweet?

For the record: - Kotlin does not have tuples, and doesn't allow abstraction over function -arity. So no, it can't to that. - Reified generics are simply not expensive, at least no…

Well, y'know, you could go with your gut - or you could actually try it out for yourself! I think you'll decide your gut was wrong, but there's only one way to be sure.

Well, if you read the linked article, a number of things are mentioned, including: - union and intersection types - an elegant and powerful representation of tuple and function typ…