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I had no problems with the humor parts. Good article.
Re:Why you might want to choose Ceylon on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @09:04AM (#10464153)
> I want to like Ceylon because it's the language Scala should be

> but I just can't see people choosing the more polished language over the one with ten years worth of library and tool support when there's no USP beyond that polish

It seems all a matter of time. What would Ceylon look like to you after some years of library and tool support?

Re:Why you might want to choose Ceylon on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @09:00AM (#10464133)
Agreed! Ceylon modularity is awesome!
Re:Why you might want to choose Ceylon on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @08:57AM (#10464121)
Here are some other articles with examples I recently wrote on Ceylon:

- http://taiar.github.io/log/2015/10/09/ceylon-programming-lan...

- http://taiar.github.io/log/2015/10/23/ceylon-programming-lan...

Basic toy stuff but has some points on Java interoperability and explores other language aspects.

Re:Emacs maintainer steps down on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:48PM (#10383002)
Totally agreed. Rare thing nowadays...
Re:Swiftkey's new neural network keyboard on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:03PM (#10360948)
I thought that people already stopped using Swiftkey.