Java > Scala

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Somedude" <lovelydear at mailmetrash.com> wrote in message 
news:jbbglp$2cp0$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> While in Java, the
> compilation time is near zero.

If you're using Eclipse, in which case the cost isn't gone at all, it's 
simply shifted to slowed down interaction with the IDE.

> The launch time of applications entirely
> depends on what you do with them: if it has to open several DB
> connections to initialize itself, yes it's sluggish, but that doesn't
> have anything to do with the language, rather with the application.

So how many hundreds of DB connections is Eclipse apparently opening upon 
startup?

>
> And JIT compilation, you don't feel it, so it doesn't matter.
>

Yea you do.