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by blackrock 1924 days ago
Life is too short to be forever tied to Java. This will be Scala’s downfall.

Elixir looks like the more promising approach. I love its pipe forwarding operator.
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dw-im-here 1924 days ago
Life is too short to reimplement libraries and have them battle tested. As a scala dev I find this a very weak argument
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weatherlight 1924 days ago
Except like the BEAM/erlangOTP(and by extension Elixir) is older than the JVM, and arguably as battle tested, if not more....
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dw-im-here 1923 days ago
Do you know the difference between a library and a runtime?
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weatherlight 1923 days ago
Do you know that these a lot of these libraries already exist as apart of the OTP platform? and that Erlang has been around for 35 years and because those libraries exists as apart of the platform by extension all the languages that run on the runtime have them too?

The JVM runtime is a runtime. BEAM/OTP/ERTS is a full fledged collection of middleware, libraries, and tools written into/as apart of the Erlang programming language. You can not separate one form the other.

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pjmlp 1924 days ago
Life is to short to reinvent the JVM and .NET runtimes, and IDEs, poorly on FOSS budgets.
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zokier 1924 days ago
scala-native exists?
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