Scala is my next choice

Re:Scala is my next choice by st3fan on Sunday July 12, 2009 @04:38PM (#700553)

These 'look how these 4 lines of Java translate into 2 lines of Scala' don't really convince me to start using it. It would be a nice to see a more structural example. Like a real world app. Anything available that is open source?

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Re:Scala is my next choice by carterschonwald on Sunday July 12, 2009 @05:04PM (#700578)

I think the best justification for using scala is that on one hand you have a very nice language which is maintained by some very smart people and has a lot of nice things that are otherwise only available with ocaml,sml, haskell, scheme, or F#, and on the other hand the programs are running on one of the best just in time compilation virtual machines that exist. Thats a very very nice combo.

[note for clarity: by smart, I mean the maintainers/designers are folks with phd's whose careers are dedicated to understanding how to design useful/powerful programming languages]

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Re:Scala is my next choice by timf on Sunday July 12, 2009 @04:57PM (#700573)

Try these, for starters:

http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master

http://github.com/dpp/lift-samples/tree/master ( http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/master )

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Re:Scala is my next choice by st3fan on Sunday July 12, 2009 @06:53PM (#700675)

Thanks. I'm reading the Kestrel source and it looks very interesting.

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