On 9/8/2010 3:44 PM, Casper Bang wrote:
As Kevin wrote the Scala guys are already at work on the next cool
thing (parallel collection). And for sure we don't have to wait till
mid 2012 before to see it delivered. Moreover some very interesting
tools, libraries and frameworks are already mature enough to be used
in production environments. And in my small experience they
dramatically improve your productivity. Give a loot at Akka for
example. There is only one word to describe it: AWESOME.
There's also Mono; more familiar to Java developers and with it's own
set of awesome stuff. Sadly it's missing from the JVM, but for all
practical purposes it represents a Java 2.0 (opt-in type inference,
dynamic typing, nullable types, lambda's, expression trees, properties
etc.). Scala might very well be 3.0, but I fear the gap between 1.0
and 3.0 is too great. Undeniably, Scala has a big opportunity here.
Hindsight is 20-20, but if Scala's grammar/syntax didn't deviate so far
from the C, C++, Java, etc, tradition, it would be taking the Java
community by storm by now.
As it is C# looks more natural to a C, C++, or Java developer than Scala
-- unfortunately. I'm not sure who Scala looks natural to...
--
Jess Holle
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