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Re:Announcing Scala.js v0.1 on Saturday November 30, 2013 @11:59AM (#6823625)
Kotlin seems like a lightly stripped down Scala.
Re:Nimrod: A new approach to metaprogramming on Saturday November 30, 2013 @11:54AM (#6823611)
This language looks very very interesting. Expressive and efficient languages are hard to come by. I really like the name too.
This is the best news I've read all month! I really hope they make the process easy. As an ex-Nokia user I've never been the biggest fan of Google's android monoculture and big brother approach to my privacy. I'd be interested to see how sailfish compares to android in terms of resource utilisation.