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Re:Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t by devinfoley on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @10:34AM (#2683292)
You forgot "fast". The perfect Java replacement would also have to be as fast as Java. Groovy, Jython, allow you to program on the JVM more easily, but unfortunately run much slower than Java. One major benefit of Scala is that it runs at pretty much the same speed as Java.
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Re:Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t by Ubersoldat on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @11:46AM (#2683645)
Groovy is pretty fast with Groovy++
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Re:Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t by dberke on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @03:46PM (#2684814)
Not just pretty fast--it completely closes the performance gap between Groovy and Java.

http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/wiki/Performance

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Re:Why Scala seems difficult but really isn’t by devinfoley on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @04:07PM (#2684964)
I forgot about Groovy++.
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