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Anyone know how the compilation times compare with regular Scala?
It supports Node.js or is only for web applications?
It supports Javascript. Node.Js runs on Javascript. Draw your conclusions.
This is a game changer. I've used it over the last few 3 or 4 months, and it is really stable and usable. I am betting an entire (although academic) project on it: http://proofpeer.net (note that Clojure is mentioned there as a language of choice, but I switched to Scala since then as Scala provides a similar level of conciseness with all the goodies of a powerful static type system with support for both Java and Jav…
Will it be open source? I would be happy to contribute (I work full-time with Scala).
This is a game changer. I've used it over the last few 3 or 4 months, and it is really stable and usable. I am betting an entire (although academic) project on it: http://proofpeer.net (note that Clojure is mentioned there as a language of choice, but I switched to Scala since then as Scala provides a similar level of conciseness with all the goodies of a powerful static type system with support for both Java and Jav…
Wow! I started working on a very similar idea half a year ago -- with machine learning and everything (my domain was proofgraph.org). I had to suspend it since it is larger than a one mans freetime project. I am very glad that someone started with a similar idea! Will it be open source? I would be happy to contribute (I work full-time with Scala).
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Mmmmm basically I think it's because Scala itself is in a really captivating position, so seeing these utilities emerge makes it that much more promising. I've switched from RoR to Scala on Play framework and at this point it's one of those things where you use & say "this is sick " but are still discouraged because the community is so small in comparison. But with Akka, with the Typesafe Console & other niceties you…
In my mind, Akka is the reason to use Scala right now. Actors are an incredibly powerful abstraction for building highly-concurrent, highly performant systems and the features Akka brings along—remoting, clustering and now event sourcing—make it a fantastic tool for these applications. But then, I'm a backend developer and Akka is more useful in that realm. Play still needs some work IMO. It's great if you need the r…
Why? Akka works fine with Java, Kotlin, and most other JVM languages.
Too bad that there is not more effort on Scala.NET instead of this. Lots of people are comfortable with writing Javascript in the browser so all of these compilers emitting Javascript end up being little more than a technology demo. But Scala on the .NET vm would really fill a gap.
Is there anything Javascript can't do?
Too bad that there is not more effort on Scala.NET instead of this. Lots of people are comfortable with writing Javascript in the browser so all of these compilers emitting Javascript end up being little more than a technology demo. But Scala on the .NET vm would really fill a gap.
Also, F# was there first, has very good support in IDEs, integration with core .NET, etc. I think Scala would have a rather hard time on CLR (I may be biased, I don't know Scala very much and I worked with OCaml long before F# happened).
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In my mind, Akka is the reason to use Scala right now. Actors are an incredibly powerful abstraction for building highly-concurrent, highly performant systems and the features Akka brings along—remoting, clustering and now event sourcing—make it a fantastic tool for these applications. But then, I'm a backend developer and Akka is more useful in that realm. Play still needs some work IMO. It's great if you need the r…
In my mind, Akka is the reason to use Scala right now. Why? Akka works fine with Java, Kotlin, and most other JVM languages.