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For Android development, install Scala runtime into rooted phone, so you don't need to "minify" your code (faster roundtrip). For Scala.js, maybe use Chrome Extension?
For production, ProGuard (removes unused code in Scala) and Closure Compiler (optimizes JS).
"How to scale to Rich Internet Applications?"
Good question. They didn't answer it. Is the Scala code going to be much more compact? And what problems scaling JS to rich applications were they thinking of, exactly? They don't say.
I have not used Scala before. What's the motivation for this? I can think of two reasons - a) to make native Scala programmers feel home with Javascript and b) Scala is a superior language than Javascript, will therefor make many things easier. How much of this is (b)?
I've used javascript for many many years and, as of 6mo ago, started using Scala (I do a lot of distributed programming on hadoop, storm, and recently spark). Scala is now one of my favorite languages because of Spark ( http://spark-project.org/ ). Scala very nicely blends the functional and imperative styles and it always favors programming without side-effects. Anything you can do in java you can do in fewer lines…
Well, you have plenty of very decent tools to inspect a running JVM state, and that's priceless. Eclipse is alright if you manage to set it up once with the tools you need and don't fiddle with the setup afterwards. Although slow, it packs a lot more features out of the box than Visual Studio. The debugger is pretty good too (including remote debugging).
If you compare it to state-of-the-art tooling for more fringe languages like Python or Haskell, it's lightyears better, really.
16MB minified. Ok; for what? "How to scale to Rich Internet Applications?" Good question. They didn't answer it. Is the Scala code going to be much more compact? And what problems scaling JS to rich applications were they thinking of, exactly? They don't say.
16MB minified. Ok; for what? "How to scale to Rich Internet Applications?" Good question. They didn't answer it. Is the Scala code going to be much more compact? And what problems scaling JS to rich applications were they thinking of, exactly? They don't say.
Definitely a strange mindset. How does JS not scale to rich applications? I'd rather use modular JS and a MV* framework than try to use GWT equivalents or things that compile to Java from other languages where the idioms don't translate.
It'd be interesting to integrate this into the GWT toolchain, so you can write both java and scala for the browser!
I have not used Scala before. What's the motivation for this? I can think of two reasons - a) to make native Scala programmers feel home with Javascript and b) Scala is a superior language than Javascript, will therefor make many things easier. How much of this is (b)?
I've used javascript for many many years and, as of 6mo ago, started using Scala (I do a lot of distributed programming on hadoop, storm, and recently spark). Scala is now one of my favorite languages because of Spark ( http://spark-project.org/ ). Scala very nicely blends the functional and imperative styles and it always favors programming without side-effects. Anything you can do in java you can do in fewer lines…