• Darkmoon_AU@lemmy.zip
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    17 hours ago

    AFAIK it’s an excellent language let down by political in-fighting in the ecosystem and subsequent fragmentation of is otherwise ‘standard’ libraries. IMO this kills the language.

    Kotlin offers most of what Scala does with a much more solid and supportive ecosystem, it’s the obvious winner in the ecological niche of ‘better JVM languages’, for me.

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      6 hours ago

      Umm, Clojure joined the chat.

      Clojure in my opinion is the most beautiful and powerful language I have ever seen.

      It has the full power of java ecosystem, amazing and simple concurrency, extremely simple syntax and semantics. You literally start ascending to other dimensions after a while of writing clojure. It’s like you are talking to your software.

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      11 hours ago

      Been a while since I’ve used Scala, but I remember Scala being much more focused on functional programming than Kotlin.