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Comment by zubairq | Hacker News Reader

I am quite amazed that so many people think that Light Table failed. Far from it, Light Table changed a whole industry:

1) Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift publicy acknowledged that Swift, used to develop all future IOS and Apple Watch apps is inspired by Light Table:

http://nondot.org/sabre/

2) It inspired a whole generation of people and tools to move away from heavily typed and compiled languages like Scala to dynamic and repl based languages

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That's interesting - so who moved from static to dynamic languages because of LightTable? Actually I'm not seeing any movement from static typing to dynamic typing in recent years, so wondering what you're talking about.

LinkedIn for one:

http://www.quora.com/Is-LinkedIn-getting-rid-of-Scala

That doesn't really seem definitive. That page also includes a link to this[1] page, from a month ago, stating that LinkedIn is moving part of its stack to Scala.

[1] - https://engineering.linkedin.com/frontend/new-technologies-n...

Well, in the conclusion they do seem to indicate that Scala use is being re-assessed with Java:

We built the new version of the home page using Scala because the language adapted itself better to asynchronous programming. With the incorporation of lambda functions in Java 8, it’s possible we’ll be utilizing Java more.

We will have to wait for more people from linkedin to weigh in on this, but it does seem to indicate at looking at other solutions than Scala when they can.

To me that looks like evidence to the contrary.

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