Java > Scala

[Steve Teale]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:22:16 -0500, Jason House wrote:

> 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
> 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.

There's a good deal of activity on the D library front, but the toolchain 
situation seems to be stuck.

The big deals as I see them, for ages, have been the flaky debugging and 
inability to generate shared libraries in Linux, and the COFF/OMF divide 
in Windows.

Steve