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Re:Ballerina, a language with structural type system by rurban on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:32AM (#20926478)
Hi Sanjiva, I'm impressed. Of the product, and that you have that many excellent Java coders in Sri Lanka. Didn't expect that.

Java really needs a safe structurally typed product. What are the major differences to Scala?

Re:Ballerina, a language with structural type system by otobrglez on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @09:06AM (#20927679)
This was exactly question in my mind as well when I saw Ballerina.

What are the major differences to Scala with Akka?

Re:Ballerina, a language with structural type system by mpfundstein on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:43AM (#20929432)
Why didn’t you expect that Sri Lanka has excellent Java coders?
Re:Ballerina, a language with structural type system by rurban on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:25PM (#20929935)
Because I never heard of them. I heard of Bangalore and Gurgaon, but never Colombo.
Re:Ballerina, a language with structural type system by keizer619 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:38AM (#20938069)
Just check this out

"Sri Lanka comes in at number one in its preference for Java" source : https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-country-would-win-in-the-p...