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If you are saying that 0.01% is insignificant but 0.03% is not, then you might have gone off a little bit too far on the fan boy scale.

Yes, it does.

Your data is showing that Scala grew from 0.01% to 0.03% over the past two years. Sounds impressive, right?

It's a relative number. Whenever somebody quotes growth numbers instead of absolute numbers, they are trying to hide something.

Let's take a look at the absolute numbers:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+java&l=

As you can see, Scala's line is a flatline around 0 compared to Java.

> The FP community is starting to break boundaries with the industry in the last 5 years with Clojure (and Scala's functional support).

There is very little evidence of that. Do a search for Scala, Clojure or Haskell on the main indicator web sites (job boards, StackOverflow, TIOBE, indeed.com, etc...) and you'll find they are as insignificant today as they were five years ago compared to the mainstream languages.

> This is incredibly big news in the Haskell world.

I'm puzzled why you think this is good news for Haskell. The lead developer and architect of GHC and authority in parallel Haskell is announcing that he's taking a position that won't allow him to spend much time working on GHC, and he might even stop using Haskell completely.

It's great news for Simon but terrible news for Haskell.

I installed the Chrome plug-in, played with it for a while and ended up uninstalling. The problem is that I now have extra labels called Brand and Personal that just won't go away. I deleted them, double checked that there were no filters left, and still, they come back.

Anybody encounter this problem? It's very annoying.

And a good reminder why I don't let third party access my Gmail inbox :-(

> Apple sells physical devices for a massive profit. No one else has been able to sell phones/tablets for so much. Apple will keep doing that as long as it can, regardless of Google's efforts to undercut.

The article is about Apple's stock price, and I'm not sure you understand how that part works.

Yes, Apple will continue to make billions of dollars every quarter for quite a while, but their stock is likely to drop down significantly in the coming year.

Something the article misses: Sublime Text 2 already comes with a command line front end called "subl". Just copy it in your favorite bin/ directory and you can open your files with it from any shell.

That doesn't address my point, which was about includes at runtime of .js files.

The reason why you see big .js files is that it's not easy to split your code in a.js and have it include b.js from the server.

> It's a tool, or a design pattern if you will, that makes the developer either deal with exceptional state or make it somebody else's problem.

So, exactly like exceptions.

There is no easy way to include .js file that are stored on your server.

Ember.js?

> Languages like Kotlin are missing the point.

That's a bit harsh. JetBrains and the developers of the compiler are certainly aware of the Maybe/Option approach, they chose not to use it. Their approach is not as composable as Haskell's but much more practical and more readable in my opinion.

If anything, the fact that Option is still used so rarely in Scala is an indication that maybe, that experiment has failed.

> They've said (r and rsc) that they want to wait and make sure they get generics Right in the context of the rest of the language

In this case, wouldn't it have been better to ship 1.0 with generics?

Retrofitting generics in a language already released with an existing code base sure doesn't seem like the best way to make sure the feature is "done right".

The rumors of Java's death are, indeed, greatly exaggerated.

> It took me a couple of hours to write the email.

It always takes longer to write short emails, which is why so few people do it.

> Telling your potential customers that they are idiots

Their potential customers are not people standing in line for hours to buy an iPhone, so the ad is spot on.

> Big Market Share. Worthless user-base.

You sound exactly like these people standing in line for iPhones in the Samsung commercial.

> iOS will maintain high price points

What high price points? iOS devices (phones and tablets) are pretty much at the same price as the competition.

Android is not a phone.

If we standardize on one operating system, I definitely prefer a future where we have thousands of phones to choose from and not just five.

Thank you Google for saving us from an Apple monopoly.

I wonder by how much their lawyer budget increased over the past years.

Is it just me or has the world moved on from Ruby? I'm seeing more companies and projects moving away from it than adopting it. It feels like Ruby had a nice shot at becoming a mainstream language thanks to Rails but it just ended up blowing up like a bubble.

Apple seems to disagree with you since in the past year, all the new products that they have introduced have pretty much been spec upgrades with no innovation (and sometimes, regressions, e.g. maps).

> Why can't they let their products sell and speak for themselves?

Because of Android.

The rise of Android is clearly showing that Apple products can no longer "speak for themselves" and Apple is feeling the pressure on all fronts, some that they used to have a 90% monopoly on (phones and 10' tablets) and some that they are joining late (7' tablets).

I see the proactive litigation as a move to delay the inevitable (iOS devices being relegated to sub 15% market share across the board, which they are on their way to).

three.js is an impressive library but sadly, they still haven't fixed their busy wait architecture: if you do nothing and just stare at the page, it will still peg your CPU.

> I am one of the Go readability reviewers, and I review thousands of lines of Go code each week.

If you're on the Go readability team, you are going to see thousands of lines of Go code each week, as a simple consequence of selection bias. Your observation doesn't invalidate my friend's claim.

Something that would invalidate that claim would be how many lines of Go are submitted into the Google code base every week compared to Java and C++. My friend is simply saying that this ratio is minuscule.

I was having lunch with a friend of mine who works at Google a few weeks ago and I asked him how popular Go was at Google. He said the only people using it are the Go team. Java and C++ continue to reign supreme at Google.

From the slide:

> Concurrency - Not well served by C++ or even Java.

Seriously?

Losing a lot of respect for the Go team.

> Maybe we all got lucky on one prediction

You didn't get lucky, your prediction was easy. About 5% (at most) startups succeed, so saying that one is going to fail is not exactly making a risky prediction.

> Your description of v1 sounds exactly like meeting strangers; am I missing something?

No, you never meet strangers. You get their photos, they get yours. You know nothing about them, except they are not too far from you.

> Color had disaster written all over it.

Hindsight is 20/20, it's easy to criticize now, but look at it from the investors' perspective:

- A CEO who not only sold his latest startup to Apple but who built about eight companies in the past twelve years, three that he sold and three that went public.

- A co founder team made from engineers that came from Google and Apple

... and you have a very solid foundation for a startup with much higher success odds than any other.