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Yesterday at Twitter there was a talk; Martin Odersky was talking about scala progress (2.8 has a pretty decent collections library, etc); probably half of the questions sounded with all kinds of Russian accents, from very slight to pretty good. I have not noticed any other accent, btw. Except Martin's Swiss.
Oh, and there's a new trick in Scala that probably will help it beat Java, performance-wise. You can have
Oh, and an update. There's a detailed blog on this here.
And two rumors. 1. Office Depot is switching to Scala. 2. Josh Bloch is switching to Scala.
;)
Oh, and there's a new trick in Scala that probably will help it beat Java, performance-wise. You can have
Map[-K,+V] (that is, a map with keys of type K and values of type V), and if K is, say, Int, the trick is that there's no boxing involved. Same for functions. Imagine int-based maps. My dream.Oh, and an update. There's a detailed blog on this here.
And two rumors. 1. Office Depot is switching to Scala. 2. Josh Bloch is switching to Scala.
;)
