Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Fresh winds are whipping through the JVM development community, and they aren't--apart from JavaFX--coming from Sun. The hype around multiple ("more than 200!") languages running on the JVM has led an acceptance that running something other than Java, and something other than a simple scripting language, on the JVM, is ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I just noticed on the netbeans-dev mailing list that Caoyuan Deng's plugin support for Scala in NetBeans has been granted one of the "innovator grants". This is good news! You can already download (very) early versions of the plugin, and there is a mailing list to provide feedback. A ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Here's a collection of some presentations & interviews on the Scala programming language I've come across in the last few months.
The great Parleys.com just posted Martin Odersky's presentation on Scala from JavaPolis 2007 (last December in Belgium). They had previously posted an interview with Martin (from the same conference) which ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
I started looking at Scala a few months ago. I'm working my way through the new (draft) Scala book, Programming in Scala, available on the Artima website, at
http://www.artima.com/shop/forsale
So far I've installed the SDK and can compile and run some sample programs from the command line. The next thing is to ...
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