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Re:Scala.js for large and complex front end apps [video] by saosebastiao on Friday March 18, 2016 @11:47AM (#11312539)
Trust me...I absolutely prefer scala as a language. I love almost everything about it (except maybe SBT, but it's tolerable). It pains me to know that the TS compiler is catching only a fraction of the problems that Scala could. But ultimately anything I write has to end up as javascript, and the community just isn't there to support it, so I end up having to deal with javascript regardless.

And yes, the js tools are loathsome in general. I've found Typescript to be the best tool available to me, and webpack is pretty good as well. Everything else I've been able to cut out thankfully.

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Re:Scala.js for large and complex front end apps [video] by maxaf on Friday March 18, 2016 @11:56AM (#11312613)
Oh, webpack is a great example of my frustration: I suspect it might be better than browserify for my needs, but I'm already so shell-shocked from adopting browserify at work that I no longer have the nerve to disturb the house of cards that I've built here. Thus webpack will have to wait.

Anyway, I hear you, although the only way to make Scala.js work better for everyone is to use it. Otherwise building a community is an insurmountable chicken-and-egg problem.

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