[Uchikoma]

[edit: See my comment below on how this might be a culture thing]

I wonder how 15 hours in the post become a couple of days here on HN. But of course, the post was written as an anecdote and should be taken as that.

Could you elaborate what makes Akka "a language" for you? I did assume Akka actors are for all practical reasons a drop in replacement for scala actors.

More people should btw. read "Anecdotal Evidence and Other Fairy Tales" in Hacknots book:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/459372/hacknot-book-a4

[seancorfield]

15 hours = 2 x 7.5 hours - 2 days? (seems like basic math to me :)

Akka is _not_ a language - I'm not sure where you got that impression? (please explain so I can respond to it - no judgement). Based on the Akka documentation (pre-1.0), it did not seem to be completely a "drop in replacement for scala actors" but I hope it's moving that way (and I'm very pleased that Scala is adopting Akka as the default implementation!).

Heh, yes, anecdotes are meant to be just that....

[lightcatcher]

I also thought you were considering Akka as a language. The sentence where you mention "leaving 3 languages in the mix" gave me this impression.

[seancorfield]

Ah, I see. No, we have another language in the mix which is not relevant to this discussion. The "One True Language" comment was a bit tongue in cheek since I doubt we'd really end up with just a single language across all tiers. I had initially hoped Scala would become our primary backend language but it looks like that "honor" will go to Clojure as we're doing more and more work with that.

[kristianp]

That document had display issues in chrome for me, and scribd wants to charge money to download the pdf. Here's a pdf link:

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mmh/APD/hacknot_book_a4.pdf

[Uchikoma]

Thanks, your link is way better than mine.

[charliegriefer]

>> I wonder how 15 hours in the post become a couple of days here on HN.

Average work day being ~8 hours, 15 hours == a couple of days :)

[yuvipanda]

Awesome link that. Spent a few hours on it. Thanks :)