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Lean startup language design

At a recent hackathon I was noodling around with Dart. I thought, it was great that Google made it particularly easy to start playing with their new language by putting an interactive shell – the Dartboard – on its home page. No download, no installation, instant coding. Very nice. On the other hand they made [ READ MORE ]

Kotlin and Ceylon to open their doors by the end of the year

The residents of Java are waiting. Waiting for the day when another city will rise to supremacy in JVMland. These days they are looking north towards the functional territories and watch with interest as the new cities Kotlin and Ceylon are being built. Many Java inhabitants are tired of the city they live in. Not just since [ READ MORE ]

Conway’s Game of Life in Scala

I attended a Code Retreat yesterday in Hamburg. As usual we used Conway’s Game of Life to practice our coding skills. I planned to do at least one session using Scala, but my Scala IDE wasn’t working any more, probably due to an incompatible upgrade of some description. So, today I took the time to get my IDE up [ READ MORE ]

What I like and don’t like about Scala

This is a follow-up post to my last one, where I was wondering which language will be Java’s successor as mainstream language on the JVM. I also asked the same question on quora.com, where I am going to maintain my opinion on this topic and also hope to get some input from other people in [ READ MORE ]

Who will be Java’s successor?

ThoughtWorks’ technology radar suggested to start thinking about ‘Java end of life‘ in its January 2010 issue. In following issues of the same document they list several languages that strive to be Java’s successor on the JVM. In order to lure the Java community into their net all these languages promise to run on the [ READ MORE ]

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