Java > Scala

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Nov 29 23:46:37 PST 2011


On 2011-11-30 07:28, Steve Teale wrote:
> 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

I agree. The shared library problem is blocked by DMD not being able to 
correctly generate PIC. Lately it seems that mostly new bugs get 
attention and the old once are almost forgotten.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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