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0 pointsgavinking10y ago0 comments

Well where there is a big difference between the underlying capabilities of the platform, differences are unavoidable.

I mean, examples of things that are cross-platform in Ceylon: collections, localization, promises, regexes, HTML construction, logging, testing, dates/times.

Examples of things that are platform specific: I/O, database access, filesystem access, distributed transactions, the HTTP server.

That's pretty reasonable and natural, isn't it?

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lomnakkus10y ago· 2 in thread

The date/time cross-platformness is a big deal for business-type applications, at the very least. You tend to transfer/use a lot of dates/timestamps/what-have-you in that type of application. (This is a constant source of pain for me in scala.js.)

gavinkingOP10y ago

ceylon.locale is also shaping up to be really useful. Localization in JS is just terrible.

lomnakkus10y ago

Yes, that's another of my pet peeves with scala.js since it basically splits your world into two around formatting of dates/time/currency/etc. (Things may have changed recently, but it was sorely lacking up until a few months ago.)

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