I realise this is a CF mailing list…
But as far another language to learn goes... I am not finding it too bad, actually. But then again - I don't have any "real" Java experience to unlearn - and apply the Scala way to, either. And… I am far from being a "naturally-gifted" application developer - but I am finding the learning curve - to the basics at least - relatively easy going. Recently, in the ColdFusion world - I have managed to get a a really good handle on ColdSpring (Dependency Injection and am starting to do some real work with AOP too) and thanks to CF's ORM implementation a relatively good exposure to Hibernate too. Perhaps they were good "primers" to get me in the right head-space to start with? I don't know, for certain of course, I am really just guessing! Definitely, Functional Programming is doing my head in - (but I honestly dot "get" closures either) - so that isn't a surprise to me! For the time being I am just using the OOP side of things, anyway. There are few things I REALLY like about Scala. * It rungs on the JVM - so you can use Java libraries natively, just like we already do in the CF world. * You can run Scala code as a script - for testing Scala expressions, without the requirements to compile / re-compile. * The Play framework is a really nice conventions based MVC framework for creating web applications. * Play also has a dynamic rebuild - so you don't need to recompile, manually, every time you want to test a change. * Lastly Akka - which is the "Actors" model framework - takes away the headache of concurrency / (threads / locking) etc from the developer. It just turns out to be a really nice "stack" to work with. On Monday, August 26, 2013 9:58:47 AM UTC+10, Mark Mandel wrote: > > Interesting! :) > > From what I hear, Scala can be quite complicated, but has some nice > features built in. Be interested to hear on your take on it. > > It's been on my todo list to have a cursory look over Scala, but have been > distracted by other things (clojure, neo4j, elasticsearch ... blerg blerg) > > Mark > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Gavin Baumanis > <beaue...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi Mark, >> Sorry for the very late reply... >> I am having a "muck about" with it. >> >> I am REALLY liking the PLAY toolkit / framework for making web apps out >> of Scala. >> >> Scala / Akka / Play - seems like a pretty common stack for web >> development, too - which is good (for me) because I found them discreetly >> of each other. >> >> There is a Melbourne Scala User Group and the Scala / Akka / Play Google >> groups seem to have lots of traffic and learner friendly / helpful people, >> too. >> >> -Gavin. >> > > > > > -- > E: mark....@gmail.com <javascript:> > T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic > W: www.compoundtheory.com > > 2 Devs from Down Under Podcast > http://www.2ddu.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
