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A small clarification: this an older project that is not directly related to my upcoming ScalaDays talk [1]. More updates to come in next few months, stay tuned. [1] http://event.scaladays.org/scaladays-nyc-2016#!#schedulePopu...
A small clarification: this an older project that is not directly related to my upcoming ScalaDays talk [1]. More updates to come in next few months, stay tuned. [1] http://event.scaladays.org/scaladays-nyc-2016#!#schedulePopu...
For those of you that havnt heard about Dotty, the next generation Scala compiler, I can recommend this link:
http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2015/10/23/dotty-compiler-boo...
Syntactically and semantically Scala is one of the best language's I have ever worked with (although I spend little time with it).It's middle approach to OOP and FP is best approach for enterprise projects.It does not try to shove FP in your throat, but provide best platform to do FP when it is much more efficient than simple OOP. However when it comes to JVM (especially in Linux desktop). My answer is big fat NO.
Of course, I am talking about desktop experience.JVM in server side is great and robust, I don't have anything against it, other than praise.
This may sound ridiculous, but I am literally sick of Java/JVM land. I would beg for native Scala backend (and it would be my first choice for doing pretty much every thing).I don't know people does share this opinion or not ,but I literally hate JVM.Slow Start up.Tremendously slow/unresponsive java app(I am talking about big apps, like android studio). Ridiculously bad font handling in Swing(there is no way to disab…
The Center's mission: "Organize open source projects around Scala".
About scala-native, no details are given on whether it targets scalac or Dotty (which another talk [2] describes as a couple years away from production-ready). The situation could change if, say, Akka or Play announced a Roadmap for Dotty.
[1] Martin Odersky: "Scala in 2016". http://files.meetup.com/18712511/Scala2016.pdf
[2] ScalaSphere: Guillaume Martres "Hacking on Dotty: a live demo". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OOYGeZLHs4
This is a cool direction. Other than previous Scala knowledge, what are some advantages of using some sort of scala-native over Rust? I've used Scala and I always imagined that I'd use Rust if I wanted something similar without the ecosystem of JVM libraries.
A comparison with some of Julia's features:
(1) Multiple dispatch: providing ability to define function behavior across many combinations of argument types
Scala has the Cake Pattern
(2) Built-in package manager
SBT, anyone?
(3) Automatic generation of efficient, specialized code for different argument types
Dotty's Linker is on the horizon, https://d-d.me/talks/scaladays2015/#/
This may sound ridiculous, but I am literally sick of Java/JVM land. I would beg for native Scala backend (and it would be my first choice for doing pretty much every thing).I don't know people does share this opinion or not ,but I literally hate JVM.Slow Start up.Tremendously slow/unresponsive java app(I am talking about big apps, like android studio). Ridiculously bad font handling in Swing(there is no way to disab…
Were it not for the Java-land compatibility & ecosystem requirement (and all the baggage associated with it, such as not alienating Java OOP programmers), I wouldn't use Scala. I'd probably ditch the OOP part of the FP+OOP hybrid that causes problems in Scala, and use something like Haskell instead.
I honestly have no interest in a native/JVM-less Scala. There are better languages for that out there.
The other announcement[1] from EPFL last week was the establishment of Scala Center, which is already staffed: http://search.epfl.ch/ubrowse.action?acro=SCALA-GE The Center's mission: "Organize open source projects around Scala". About scala-native, no details are given on whether it targets scalac or Dotty (which another talk [2] describes as a couple years away from production-ready). The situation could change if,…