Yammer moving away from Scala

codahale wrote: post #6

latchkey wrote: post #5

Interesting that it has gone away now. @jbrkr, thanks for finding a new link.

I'm curious as to where you got that link, considering that I didn't share my personal correspondance with Typesafe with you.

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Re: Yammer moving away from Scala

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Post by michaelcampbell » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 8:46 PM UTC

Fascinating writeup, honestly. I've only dabbled with Scala around the edges and have been focusing on Clojure recently, so I don't have enough experience to agree or disagree with that, but Scala always felt too ... something, for me. I'm having fun with Clojure, and the community is wonderful. For quicky java-esque one-offs, Groovy is suiting me.

But to each their own.

Re: Yammer moving away from Scala

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Post by lucian1900 » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 9:03 PM UTC

I've been looking for alternatives to Java for Android development. Since Python and Clojure aren't options (right now anyway), I looked at Scala among others.

I found the syntax pretty terrible, worse than Java in several ways. In particular, too complex. I also found the object system overly complicated (and I find Haskell's ok).

Re: Yammer moving away from Scala

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Post by michaelcampbell » Tue, Nov 29, 2011, 9:16 PM UTC

lucian1900 wrote: post #9

I've been looking for alternatives to Java for Android development. Since Python and Clojure aren't options (right now anyway), I looked at Scala among others. I found the syntax pretty terrible, worse than Java in several ways. In particular, too complex. I also found the object system overly complicated (and I find Haskell's ok).

It's early days yet, but you /can/ do Clojure on android. Check out https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sattvik.clojure_re..., and google Daniel Solano Gomez; the guy behind the vast majority of that effort.