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0 pointspjmlp4y ago0 comments

Both are guest languages, Java owns the platform.

What did the trick are the other programming languages that can stand on their own as platforms.

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Scala can compile to JS or LLVM. Why owning a platform when amazing ones already exist?

pjmlpOP4y ago

One either gets to say where the platform goes, or keeps playing catch-up with its features, requires additional tooling, wrapper libraries, care about FFI, IDE plugins that understand all of that in a coherent way.

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0 pointspjmlp4y ago0 comments

Both are guest languages, Java owns the platform.

What did the trick are the other programming languages that can stand on their own as platforms.

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asdasdasdch4y ago

Scala can compile to JS or LLVM. Why owning a platform when amazing ones already exist?

pjmlpOP4y ago

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