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Re:Open Source .NET three years later by JamesBarney on Sunday December 24, 2017 @03:35PM (#16001199)
It's not like when you switch to Scala you get all the advantages of java without having to deal with a crappy language. You're also giving up a large amount of tooling.
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Re:Open Source .NET three years later by bad_user on Sunday December 24, 2017 @04:12PM (#16001313)
A lot of the tooling is reusable. Profilers, debuggers, build tools, libraries all work.

And IntelliJ IDEA has been doing a good job with its support for multiple languages, having great support for Scala, Kotlin, Groovy and JRuby at least. There's also great support available for Clojure built by a third party.

Yes, I think you get most of the advantages of Java. There's a learning curve involved for Java developers of course, but it's very incremental because the underlying platform is the same and this matters.

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