On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 17:21:43 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
I earn my pay with Java development. In my spare time I learn
some Scala hoping there might be some work for me with Scala
in the future. Then I need to become familiar with all kinds
of new frameworks, tools, libraries and systems that continue
to pop up every year in the JVM eco system.
In the end there is not much time left for playing with a
"systems language". As Go is very effortless it could be a
good compromise here. I have thrown it away and refetched it
due to lack of alternatives several times. I would like to
play with D, but it has as step a learning curve as Scala. If
you don't have a background in C or C++ the learning curve is
even steeper. So it depends a lot from where you are coming.
I have never used Scala, never written in C++, and haven't done
much C programming in about twenty years (and only occasional
VBA for Excel programming in between). I don't learn as
quickly today as when a child. But I was able to learn enough
D to be productive in my domain in a few months, and found it
easier to learn than Python. So I haven't personally found the
learning curve to be steep in the sense of learning enough to
be reasonably productive. The metaprogramming perhaps, but you
can do a lot without being a ninja there if your orientation is
just being able to solve the problems you have in a small to
medium project.
Laeeth
There is something about languages that is very personal, though.
D just seemed right aesthetically. One is going to find it
easier to become an expert on a composer - say Beethoven, if he
speaks to something in your soul, than if you simply can't stand
his music. (And there are many gradations in between). It is an
unfashionable perspective, but I think this is true of
programmimg languages too. People have different aesthetic and
emotional organisations, and the appeal of different languages
will not be the same to every person, holding ability constant.
