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I've recently started using the IntelliJ EAP X builds for a personal project in Scala and find it usable and useful too.
The maven-scala-plugin is solid and will let you switch between IntelliJ and Eclipse relatively easily. I don't use the maven eclipse plugin but instead "mvn eclipse:eclipse" from the command line whenever the pom changes. Using a pom-based build is useful in a production environment especially if you are using/providing components from/for others. IntelliJ has maven support built-in and seems to work well.
I've only pushed the IDEs to ~40 source files. Things might start breaking as the projects get bigger.
Things are definitely better than they were a year ago and thanks to both the scala-ide and IntelliJ people!
Most places you'd want to live (eastern suburbs, inner west, northern beaches) will start at $350/wk.
To get something nice in Alexandria or Newtown will be $450/wk plus.
Of course, the focus is the Java language... but there are lots of practical examples.
I would guess part of the reason for the delay is that they are rewriting large chunks of it to work consistently across very different hardware platforms -- and they've done a lot of performance and security related work.
It's nice that a ping (IM) can turn into a threaded chat can turn into a document. Editing, with change bars, is great.
It's also great that you can add someone to a wave "late" and they get to see the current state of the wave -- and the history if they care. Much better than forwarding someone an email that has done the rounds.
I agree with the person that suggested it is more useful "for work". Think of it more as "Lotus Notes"-lite than email.
Go - http://golang.org/ - doesn't use LLVM because they claim it is "large and slow". Search for llvm on http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html
All true except the "shitty" part -- it's actually a nice little VM with some good technology and skilled people behind it. Unfortunately, Adobe ignored non-Windows/Mac for too long and alienated a lot of free software people even more.
Lots of opportunity for pop-psychology here... but best to let it pass...
There are many technology-oriented and societal reasons to prefer an "open" web. The fact is that the AIR-reader delivers today what is likely to appear in browsers over the next couple of years.
http://jdbi.org/ is an even lighter weight wrapper over JDBC.
If you need a full-featured ORM then http://www.hibernate.org/, or another JPA implementation, perhaps http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/ or http://www.datanucleus.org/ are worth a look.