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> The comparison is that Scala is to Java what C++ is to C. Which is pure opinion/speculation.

I happen to find str: String much more readable than String str.

I think you're confusing Scala and C++.

In our experience Scala has been a superb alternative for large Java projects. Practical experience vs. your opinion/speculation?

I use the defaults, and then set about removing all shortcuts from my desktop

IntelliJ plugin download stats: Scala 883,000 Kotlin 21,000

I know, but the .NET CLR has lagged the JVM for years in terms of performance, but its a few years since I did a comparison...

The most annoying thing about IntelliJ is the way it's keyboard shortcuts clash with virtually every keyboard shortcut of your average Linux distro. Other than that it's an awesome…

Scala implement tail call optimization in the compiler. In general the JVM has always outperformed the CLR: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...

Better performance? What are you basing that on?

I would argue the exact opposite. Odersky has gone to great lengths to discourage overly defensive commentary and bashing of other languages: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/124…

I should also point out that it's a feature which I don't believe detracts from readability. It's pretty clear from looking at code which uses ST what it does. There are examples i…

Removing structural typing wouldn't be an improvement to my mind. It's the sort of thing you use maybe once a year, but when you do it's extremely useful to have around. It's a bit…

The quality of the original "1-star" blog post was extremely low. Odersky sums it up well with: This week-end's edition is called "Scala - 1 Star - would not program again", and it…

C# has various options (see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671231/linq-nhibernate-al... ) The Scala equivalent is called Slick, and it's the only SQL DSL that approaching anyt…

C# does that too. It's called LINQ and it's very popular.

That's pretty odd. What libraries were you using?

* You might be better off using a pre-release snapshot of Java 8 as a better Java. You'll get closures, functional collections, and better type inference. I bet Eclipse and Intelli…

For an "academic exercise" it's getting used pretty widely by the likes of Twitter, Foursquare, Netflix etc.

I would rather use almost anything else except the random DSL wasteland that is Scala In my experience very little Scala code uses DSLs. Learning Scala isn't that tricky for anyone…

Kotlin hasn't even been released yet, and it looks just like Scala.

The tool doesn't include any of the c3 and i2 instance types yet.

It does look very interesting. I was surprised to learn that it cross-compiles to C before being compiled. I'd be even more interested if there was an IntelliJ plugin for Nimrod.

If I recall correctly Groovy was directly inspired by Python. I don't have a link, but I remember reading that the creator of Groovy was inspired after seeing a book on Python.