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Re:Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplat... by jaaron on Friday November 04, 2011 @06:50PM (#3198037)
It's not just Scala, it's Groovy, BeanShell, Factor (JFactor now), Fantom, Frege, Kotlin, Ceylon, Stab, Gosu, Mirah, and that's not counting all the ported versions of Ruby, Python, Lisp (Clojure) and so on.

What you haven't written a JVM language yet? It used to be you weren't a proper programmer until you'd gotten fed up and written your own CMS or web framework. Now I guess everyone has to have their own programming language.

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Re:Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplat... by rayiner on Friday November 04, 2011 @07:52PM (#3198256)
It's not so surprising.

You remove one of the major pain points of developing your own language (platform/libraries), thus reducing the costs of writing your own language, which shifts the industry to a point where there are more languages.

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Re:Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplat... by william42 on Friday November 04, 2011 @09:15PM (#3198486)
Sidenote: JFactor is an outdated implementation and I haven't heard anything about it being revived. Factor has compiled to native code for years now.
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Re:Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplat... by nickik on Saturday November 05, 2011 @11:54AM (#3200023)
Clojure is not a proted Lisp. Clojure is a new language that is just as diffrent from any other Lisp as Groovy is diffrent from Ruby or Scala from ML.
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