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Where can I find more info on the performance work done on collections?

Your comment was about C# being "the best language in terms of features and improvements", nothing about usage numbers. I agree that C# is far more widely used than Scala, but Scal…

> CSharp once again showing it is the best language in terms of features and improvements. That's a pretty sweeping generalization. Most of the headline features in the article are…

Java's a pretty extreme outlier for late or non-adoption of modern features, but it is true that Java is the closest direct competitor/peer to C# in terms of usage/marketshare. C# …

I don't think Android is a good example of a platform which .NET supports which Java doesn't since Java is the primary development language for Android apps... I'm also pretty sure…

Care to name some of these platforms which Java doesn't run on which .NET supports? I'm having a hard time coming up with even a very short list.

Working on the next major version Scala (3.0) != "looses interest" in Scala.

Odersky gave some details of language features being removed for Scala 3 in his talk and it seemed to be really obscure features I don't use anyway.

According to Odersky's recent talk [1, 2] it's about twice as fast as the current Scala compiler and should still improve significantly. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2oGY8l…

> it's a great feature for boring driving I'd much rather have a "boring" driver on the road than deal with aggressive drivers.

OpenJDK is the official reference implementation of the JVM, so that would be a little silly... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK http://openjdk.java.net/faq/

At least the JVM supports multiple languages (Scala, Clojure etc.), but if there's a spec it shouldn't be hard for anyone to add support for other languages.

Horrifying! My primary email account is also with Yahoo. I really hope this doesn't go through.

Those damn hair emergencies, always sneaking up on a person...

Me too. I was super surprised when I clicked through to see a Go framework.

Sounds amazing. Where do I find the Windows source on Github?

The IntelliJ Scala plugin is pretty awesome too and it also offers machine translation of Java code to Scala. It's actually the most widely downloaded plugin for IntelliJ by nearly…

I use Scala every day. IntelliJ uses incremental compilation, so most compiles complete quicker than it takes for me to reach for the mug of coffee next to my keyboard.

Turbo Pascal has much faster compile times than Kotlin. Compile time just isn't that big a deal as a feature.

Go feels more like C with garbage collection and a nicer standard library, but lacks the abstractions necessary to be anywhere near as expressive as Python, Ruby, Scala or even Rus…

We had very similar experiences with Scala. Java and the JVM are incredibly stable and mature but the language (even with JDK8+) is very restrictive. There's no pattern matching, n…

Brainfuck probably has an equal chance of being selected as C#. The problem is more that the APIs and all of the existing apps. Google can't just wake up one morning and decide tha…

...which uses the Java API and libs... It's a more pleasant option than Java but it's not going to solve the API copyright issues.

I'm curious how switching to Kotlin would help since it relies on the Java APIs and libs...

Kotlin relies on the Java APIs and libs, so wouldn't really help.