The myth of using Scala as a better Java

Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by sandGorgon on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:13AM (#13771597)

Kotlin 1.1 + Reactor (http://projectreactor.io/) has erlang style messaging passing paradigms, world class tooling and is gradually replaceable (class-by-class) for Java.

It's going to be interesting comparing the adoption curves of both these languages especially after Java 9 and most importantly Graal (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/graal/) .

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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by pmarreck on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:01AM (#13773704)

> erlang style messaging passing paradigms

Or you could, you know, go directly to the source while experiencing a pretty nice language on its own http://elixir-lang.org/

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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by hnbroseph on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:00AM (#13775034)

elixir is for rubyists, really. dynamnic typing.

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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by pmarreck on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:34PM (#13778446)

Guards, pattern-matching (even down to the structural level) and typespecs cover a lot of the ground that static typing would, without forcing the type rigidity. Although Haskell seems to have admittedly cornered the static typing market

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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by gregpardo on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:57AM (#13773990)

Wow this is cool. I always preferred Kotlin to Scala and have used it for Android dev. It was extremely easy to get it working compared to writing an app in Scala and the language was more similar with a modern syntax.

This project looks neat and if you had to use JVM tools but wanted some of the benefits of Erlang style development I could see it being a perfect fit.

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