Java > Scala

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-02 22:40, Somedude wrote:

> Yes, the IDE takes care of a lot of boilerplate code. It's ugly, but
> it's hardly a productivity issue. One other thing that's cool is
> refactoring is no longer an issue, like it is in C or C++. With powerful
> IDEs, you can refactor without fearing too much regression, and that's a
> very important advantage, especially in a heavily OO language.

That's no longer the case if you take a look at newer C/C++ IDE's like 
the latest versions of XCode that uses Clang to handle basically all 
language related features of the IDE, autocompletion, syntax 
highlighting, refactoring and similar.

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/Jacob Carlborg