Re: Anyone playing with Scala?
Re: Anyone playing with Scala?
- Subject: Re: Anyone playing with Scala?
- From: Ravi Mendis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:43:42 +0200
Playtime is over for Scala...
...my intention is to do my next production app in Scala.
The primary motivation for using Scala is that it is inherently thread-safe.
Web 2.0 apps (like a ERDivaLook app for example) really need concurrent request handling.
With Java, one can be careful, but unless you code-review regularly you can never be sure you have thread-safe code.
In Scala you are automatically writing thread-safe code (more or less).
So you don't have to have sleepless nights over deadlocks when using concurrent request handling :)
Now, developing and deploying more ambitious Web 2.0 UI is a possibility...
On Thursday, September 17, 2009, at 06:10AM, "Q" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Thanks Ravi, I will check it out. It's only been 2 years and 3 months
>since I asked the original question. :)
>
>Over the last couple of years I have actually written a few proof of
>concept approaches for writing wo apps in other languages: ruby,
>groovy, javascript, etc. They worked with various amounts of success,
>and it is all very cool, but I always keep coming back to java because
>of the tool support and IDE integration with WOLips and Java.
>Particularly for things that aren't code, like component validation,
>content assist, etc.
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>Do you feel this is something you would use to write real world apps
>with, or is it just something you have tried as a bit of fun?
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>On 17/09/2009, at 11:27 AM, Ravi Mendis wrote:
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>> Dusting off an ancient thread here...
>>
>> For those interested in programming WebObjects in Scala, you might
>> like:
>> http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/WebObjects+with
>> +Scala
>>
>> Thanks to Dominique Schonenberger for gifting me "Programming in
>> Scala" (by Martin Odersky) for my holidays :)
>>
>> FYI: Martin Odersky, is both the author of the language and the book.
>> I highly recommend it! It's easy to see why Scala's become popular
>> at Twitter, linkedin, etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ravi
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>--
>Seeya...Q
>
>Quinton Dolan - email@hidden
>Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10)
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