Scala as long-term replacement for Java

Re:Scala as long-term replacement for Java by fogus on Monday July 06, 2009 @08:08AM (#689502)

There are a couple of nice articles about Scala vs. Erlang, although they take a more nults-and-bolts view:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/06/scala-vs-erlang http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/05/18/erlang-vs-scala/

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Re:Scala as long-term replacement for Java by davidw on Monday July 06, 2009 @08:30AM (#689530)

Yeah, Yariv points at what I suspected, that the Erlang model is a bit more robust. However, I wonder if Scala is, in practice, 'good enough'.

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Re:Scala as long-term replacement for Java by nbhat on Monday July 06, 2009 @08:54AM (#689552)

Twitter backend processing was rewritten in Scala.. Though I dont have specific opinion yet about Scala, that is a point to be noted.

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Re:Scala as long-term replacement for Java by pygy on Monday July 06, 2009 @09:25AM (#689596)

While we're at it: the backend of the Facebook chat is coded in Erlang. 1-1.

No peculiar opinion about any of them either, btw.

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Re:Scala as long-term replacement for Java by davidw on Monday July 06, 2009 @04:23PM (#690378)

Either one obviously can be used for a great deal of things, that's not what I'm questioning. Mine is more a question of how the theoretical limits of Scala actually impact its real world usage and in what situations.

BTW, in terms of noting points, high end phone systems having N nines uptime is definitely a point for Erlang:-)

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