Java > Scala

[Jason House]

Jesse Phillips Wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:34:51 -0500, bearophile wrote:
> 
> > A recently written report from a firm that has switched back from Scala
> > to Java:
> > 
> > https://raw.github.com/
> gist/1406238/72ade1a89004a9a7d705b00cfd14b90b2b6a26bd/gistfile1.txt
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> The main key points I see coming from this.
> 
> * The community wasn't helpful/consistent
> * Implementation problems
> * Being built on top of the JVM

I looked at the issues much differently. I read it hours ago, but here are what I remember as big issues:
* immature / incomplete libraries
* immature toolchain
* poor performance with common patterns
* not widely adopted / hard to teach

I think D shares all of these problems to differing degrees.