The myth of using Scala as a better Java

Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by geodel on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:58PM (#13777059)

I guess I am not obsessed with expressiveness. I think of programing as something to help business/users to get on with what they want to do, as opposed to exercise in elegant self-expression. Towards that goal Java, Go seems very fine languages to me.

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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by willtim on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:02PM (#13777108)

But as my example pointed out, expressiveness is often the difference between being able to understand something and not. Expressiveness permits better abstractions, better composition and better libraries, allowing cheaper and faster software. Something business users will appreciate.

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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by geodel on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:20PM (#13777274)

I do not disagree that Java, Go could be better. It is just that I remain big sceptic because such better languages leaves very important things which matter in real world and covered by Java, Go etc but not by better languages e.g tooling, GC, powerful runtimes, build tools and so on.

I would wait till Scala does something great natively without standing on shoulders of JVM/JRE etc.

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