Re:The future of C# and Visual Basic [video]
by jbergens on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @03:34AM
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You also get a step-wise path to rewrite the applications. Going to Scala would probably be a complete re-write which is risky and time consuming. I don't think Scala usage will grow much more now that Java 8 is released. The benefits of rewriting a Java application to Scala is probably not that great in comparison to the cost. And the C# to Scala re-write is probably even worse from a cost/risk perspective.
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Re:The future of C# and Visual Basic [video]
by frowaway001 on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @04:32AM
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Well, obviously other people did the math and went ahead with it.
> I don't think Scala usage will grow much more now that Java 8 is released.
I don't get that reasoning. As the GP mentioned, even C# projects migrate, so why would Java's more concise anonymous inner classes be a show-stopper?