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Re:Scala Native by jfoutz on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:30PM (#11681135)
I've got at least 30 enterprise applications that disagree with your "nonstarter" assertion. Dead code can only exist in real world code.
Re:Scala Native by acjohnson55 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @02:07AM (#11681646)
I'm talking about within the main use case, which is front-end web development. I guess some folks might be cool with 10MB+ JS apps, but I don't think that would be terribly popular, and certainly not popular enough to bother with imitating Java reflection in JavaScript.