beckje01

With groovy being pulled more into use with spring and great test frameworks like Spock, I see more groovy use paired with java not less.

Scala is the interesting one I'm interested to see if a simplified type system can be introduced ala http://www.infoq.com/presentations/data-types-issues

The problem that comes up is by the time you hit the tipping point of more cleaning then feature additions you end up having to do the fast solutions to fit deadlines.

I think when you take on the debt of poor code you have to remember that what it will take to fix that problem will continue to increase the longer you are away from that code.

Now I don't think you should consider fixing things for scale poor code that is it's own beast which makes the most sense to handle once you have the problem as you can't really tell what the problem will be until you have it.

Maybe not, make sure to try different ways of getting into programming if the simple command line stuff isn't working for you. Maybe try something like codepen.io and just get a basic start and dig into javascript that interacts with the page.