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technomancy on Aug 12, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scala – The Next 5 Years

> Its mature enough to be used for real projects and its a lot nicer and whole lot more powerful than Java.

Sure, but that's not exactly saying a lot.

davidw on Aug 12, 2009 [–]

Actually what says a lot is that integration with Java is pretty easy, and it's more powerful than Java. That means it's easy for the hordes of Java users to jump ship, without, say, facing a rewrite to Ocaml or Erlang or Visual Haskell ++. That's pretty important.

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