Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
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Re: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
#2Well, of course a classic programming language is better then a script language for majority of tasks. Script languages like JS and Ruby just should not be abused and should only be used as a very thin layer on top. E.g. GUI scripting.
Re: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
#3Well, of course a classic programming language is better then a script language for majority of tasks. Script languages like JS and Ruby just should not be abused and should only be used as a very thin layer on top. E.g. GUI scripting.
I would recommend that you immediately inform Yahoo, 37 Signals, Hulu, GitHub, Penny Arcade, and every other Node, Rails, Sinatra, and EventMachine user of this fact!
Also, Tcl/Tk called and wants its use case back.
Re: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
#4Well, of course a classic programming language is better then a script language for majority of tasks. Script languages like JS and Ruby just should not be abused and should only be used as a very thin layer on top. E.g. GUI scripting.
I would recommend that you immediately inform Yahoo, 37 Signals, Hulu, GitHub, Penny Arcade, and every other Node, Rails, Sinatra, and EventMachine user of this fact! Also, Tcl/Tk called and wants its use case back.
Why do microsoft and google insist on static compiled languages?
Re: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
#5As a Ruby developer, I can't get through these sorts of slides. My other languages are C, Go and JavaScript, and the Scala syntax is totally inscrutable to me. Isn't the point of slides presenting something that can be easily absorbed? And I can't just quickly look up these declarations either — Scala is too complex for that given my experience level. Is there a gentle introduction talk for Scala around so I can evaluate the language without putting in a week of learning?
Re: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
#6The speaker pays a lot of attention to implicits in Scala. Well, it's a powerful tool, elegant solutions can be built with it, but you should be careful using them. Implicits bring its own magic and abusing them can pollute your project, make it difficult to understand the code. Maybe the speaker is so attracted to inplicits because they remind him of Ruby's / Rails' magic?
Re: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
#7Well, of course a classic programming language is better then a script language for majority of tasks. Script languages like JS and Ruby just should not be abused and should only be used as a very thin layer on top. E.g. GUI scripting.
I would recommend that you immediately inform Yahoo, 37 Signals, Hulu, GitHub, Penny Arcade, and every other Node, Rails, Sinatra, and EventMachine user of this fact! Also, Tcl/Tk called and wants its use case back.
Those companies are using it properly though, don't they?
Re: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would recommend that you immediately inform Yahoo, 37 Signals, Hulu, GitHub, Penny Arcade, and every other Node, Rails, Sinatra, and EventMachine user of this fact! Also, Tcl/Tk called and wants its use case back.
Why do microsoft and google insist on static compiled languages?
Google are trying to use Python as well. But they are probably forcing the best practices as well - otherwise it's a mess.
Re: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
#9As a Ruby developer, I can't get through these sorts of slides. My other languages are C, Go and JavaScript, and the Scala syntax is totally inscrutable to me. Isn't the point of slides presenting something that can be easily absorbed? And I can't just quickly look up these declarations either — Scala is too complex for that given my experience level. Is there a gentle introduction talk for Scala around so I can eval…
You might try Venkat Subramaniam's Scala for the Intrigued [1]. He's a very good speaker.
Regarding Scala's complexity - some more advanced features are presented in those slides. Imagine watching a talk about Python where they talk about decorators and meta-classes.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=grvv...
Re: Confessions of a Ruby Developer Whose Heart was Stolen by Scala
#10As a Ruby developer, I can't get through these sorts of slides. My other languages are C, Go and JavaScript, and the Scala syntax is totally inscrutable to me. Isn't the point of slides presenting something that can be easily absorbed? And I can't just quickly look up these declarations either — Scala is too complex for that given my experience level. Is there a gentle introduction talk for Scala around so I can eval…
Consider F# then.