Am Montag, 28. Juli 2014 18:01:09 UTC+2 schrieb Dmitry Suzdalev:
>
> Nick,
>
> Thank you for such a detailed answer, it got everything covered! :)
>
> Speaking of IDE's I'd especially like to try to develop not relying on 
> IDE. I code in IntelliJ for Android, but when I get away from it and use 
> Emacs in my other projects for different languages, I simply get blown away 
> by its speed and responsiveness compared to lagging IDE (maybe that's on my 
> system only, dunno). Of course IDE has some nice things to it, no doubt, 
> but I like performant things so much...
>
> IntelliJ IDEA editing facilities are very responsive, and goes quite fast.
As Scala is a static typed language, the IDE can help you a lot, checking 
syntax on the flight, auto-completion, call hierarchy, ....
 

> I hope that one day gradle will untie me up from IDE in Java-land (it 
> already can, but I didn't made the switch yet, due to some deadlines on 
> course), but having a superior language (Scala) and not being tied up to a 
> particular IDE (sbt/gradle) is even more cool :)
>
>From the command line you can compile, launch your app, all except 
debugging.
 

> So I'd like to experiment with this. Google showed that there's a good 
> support for Scala-in-Emacs too, so...
>
> As about GC strain, I googled a bit and it seems that in Scala I can 
> choose between mutable/immutable collections so this thing is hopefully 
> solvable: whenever I identify a bottleneck, it can be optimized.
>
> I think next thing to do is to learn Scala/sbt which should be fun.
>
> Not so hard.  There are some examples. 

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