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Post by the_af » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 11:40 PM UTC

niccaluim wrote: post #22

0xFFC wrote: post #13

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…

Not ridiculous; I'm with you.* I think that Scala is a solid, relatively modern language and that the Java ecosystem is bonkers. Something like Scala-the-language + Go-like tooling and deployment would make my day. (Maybe what I'm describing is Rust, which I admit I haven't taken more than a cursory look at even though I think it's interesting.) *Assuming my agreement lowers the probability of being ridiculous, which…

Scala is a modern language unfortunately set back by its need to compromise and be compatible with Java. If we go native and remove the need for Java/JVM compatibility, what is there left about Scala? There are many other languages better at FP, so I guess what remains is the FP+OOP hybrid thing? Which I'm not sure I like anyway, since it makes the language less tidy than I'd like.

Disclaimer: I work with Scala in my day job, and I like it -- it sure is nicer than Java -- but I don't know if I would use it in situations where the JVM wasn't mandated or needed.