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0 pointsqwertyuiop9249y ago0 comments

I guess... but it's advertising to large teams, it seems java-oriented (so if I wanted that sort of thing, I could use Clojure), it's pushing an IDE, and it's from Red Hat, a company that has given us such marvellous technologies as networkmanager, rpm, dbus, systemtap, and systemd - so while not an awful track record, not exactly picking all winners either.

All in all, kind of neat, but that is just way too many red flags for me to say I'm bursting with anticipation to use it.

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zem9y ago

agreed about the red flags, but the actual language looks very tastefully designed and pleasant to use.

qwertyuiop924OP9y ago

I suppose. But I'm not really the target audience: I'm more comfortable in Scheme than Haskell, and I'm willing to forgive JS most of its warts (especially since it's got proper HOF (better than Python and Ruby, anyways), and is getting TCO. It even has a macro system, courtesy of sweet.js (even if it is only a limited pattern-matching one, as opposed to the imperative systems of Lisp and most Schemes)).

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0 pointsqwertyuiop9249y ago0 comments

All in all, kind of neat, but that is just way too many red flags for me to say I'm bursting with anticipation to use it.

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zem9y ago

agreed about the red flags, but the actual language looks very tastefully designed and pleasant to use.

qwertyuiop924OP9y ago

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