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Scala or Cloujre, just like Java will be used for not so exciting programming tasks, syntactic sugar won't help here.

Respect your opinion, but Storm is not exciting? Hadoop? Solr? GWT? Android? Saying Scala or Clojure (or java) are not used for exciting tasks is dismissing all these projects as non exciting, which I have to disagree

> GWT

Emscripten - C++ -> JS, that's exciting, compared to Java -> JS

> Solr

Who cares about technology behind Solr? You didn't even mention Lucene

I think the OP meant that when there is a job posting relevant to those [JVM] languages, it often means "yet another CRUD/Enterprise" stuff.

Although, Android did some diversification for Java programmers, right.

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