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Isn't it amazing how they can enforce a ceasefire when they want to, and turn a blind eye to other groups when it suits them...

> And who murdered those kids? Not Hamas.

Hamas themselves neither confirms nor denies it [1], so how can you claim that?

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/10/us-palestinians-is...

These days C# has more in common with Scala than it does with Java, even if C# 1.0 was virtually a clone of Java.

Scala has replaced Java most of our new projects.

> Scala and others only by startups.

I wouldn't describe various investment banks, twitter and amazon as "startups".

Another product for the Google chopping block...

Neither did anyone else. Forcing people into creating g+ accounts via youtube etc. hardly counts as "took off"...

I'm more amazed by the level of vague content-free comments hero-worshipping Google.

The Darcula theme in IntelliJ with Swing looks really good.

I think he means that Clojure and Scala require less code to get the same thing done since Java is very boilerplate heavy and verbose.

There are many people who can't afford Photoshop, so Paint.NET is useful for those who want something better than paint without having to sell their car to pay for software.

Nothing worse than systems which force you to use a Google account to log in.

The stock android one is pretty poor compared to Swype.

Just about every project used Log4j. When they added logging to the JDK they shipped logging support which was worse than what everyone was already using (log4j), so adoption was very limited.

It's a nice performance improvement over ReadWriteLock as anyone who's ever tried it will know that RWL pretty slow.

The best part is that these classes are available for use in other JVM languages. I'm more likely to use these from Scala than I am from Java.

The results for that question are very interesting too (although perhaps not that surprising). There was virtually no interesting in Xtend.

Also interesting to see Java apps by type according to the survey:

Web applications: 71%

Libs and frameworks: 15%

Desktops: 11%

Mobile: 3%

I'm surprised mobile is so low given that Java is what's used to write Android apps.

I wouldn't read too much into enthusiastic Scala downvoting on the programming subreddit. It seems that most people I know who have used Scala love it, but there are those who don't who tend to be very vocal online. What is interesting is how many downvoters have never used Scala but have the Paul Phillips video bookmarked for every discussion where Scala is mentioned.

It's very interesting to see the data for what technologies Java developers are "really interested" in:

Scala: 47%

Java 8: 35%

http://zeroturnaround.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/what-te...

Java developers seem really interested in Scala (more so than Java 8). I think the distinction which will come in when comparing technologies that developers want to use and are really interested in vs those that they will actually use given inertia of existing code and corporate adoption.

Over 3,000 charge/discharge cycles...

"Reliable – first ever high performance battery that meets consumer lifecycle demand, rated for more than 3,000 charge/discharge cycles."

Well maybe they decided you weren't a good match for the ad after they trawled through all your email.

Same here, we have multiple large Scala systems, never had issues editing files in IntelliJ.

> but my productivity and general joy in programming shot through the roof when I started using Scala.

That was exactly my experience. Maintaining Java code from time to time makes me realise just how big the difference is.

In many cases annotations are just a crutch to work around glaring limitations in the Java language.

That's very subjective. I find the jax-rs version with annotations scattered everywhere to be very ugly. I prefer my source code to not look like it has Twitter hashtags everywhere.

It's probably worth looking at how Scala implemented value types to get an idea of a likely approach: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10TQKgMiJTbVtkdRG53wsLYwW...

I'm not sure that one motherboard can count as "back in the game".

The only time I ever see G+ being used is for random geek blog posts on HN from time to time. Virtually everyone I know is on FB.

I haven't dug into the details, but here's how Scala went about adding string interpolation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NdxNxZYodPA-c4MLr33KzwzK...