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by stewbrew 4082 days ago
You question the longevity of Java and Scala, and this is why you use mini niche languages? Seriously.
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hackerboos 4082 days ago
Corrected.

Elixir as a language may or may not last. I'm betting it will, but even if it doesn't, it works well with Erlang which is going nowhere.

There's more a case against Clojure, granted. I think because Scala is seen as a bridge language is the another reason why it won't last.

Also the compiler drama... http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/09/scala-compiler-forks

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justthistime_ 4081 days ago
Isn't it positive that the community is so large that it can sustain multiple compilers?

Some time ago people complained that Scala had only one compiler ... so now they complain about the opposite?

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dragonwriter 4081 days ago
> Some time ago people complained that Scala had only one compiler ... so now they complain about the opposite?

I suspect the "they" that are complaining now about multiple compilers are mostly not the same people that were complaining about one compiler previously.

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