On Jun 18, 11:56 pm, cageface <milese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Unfortunately there seems to be a lot more commercial momentum for > Scala though. It's still a blip compared to the mainstream languages > but I'm seeing more and more job posts mentioning it, and hardly any > for Clojure. I don't think Scala is a bad language overall, but I'm > not sure I'd dump Ruby for it. On the other hand, I can imagine > migrating most of my dev work over to Clojure with the right project. > Has anybody else wrestled with this choice? Any thoughts?
I started playing with Scala before I decided to make a long term commitment to learning and using Clojure. I think Scala is both exciting and awesome. The only thing that bothered me about it was the community's choice of a two space indent (its very tiring to look after a few hours). I ended up choosing Clojure for my own needs because the availability of macros and I enjoy programming in Clojure more than other languages. Personally I feel big corporate style projects destroy a language - I've seen simple elegant Java code but the culture went in a different direction entirely. So I personally would be happier if Scala goes mainstream and Clojure doesn't. The really cool thing though, is that with the JVM, Clojure and Scala can interoperate. Saul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
