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What don't you like about that approach?

I think Fan might be the simpler better Java - but like you say I dont think it taken off. http://fantom.org/

It been a while since i played with Rails so was surprised to hear that Rails is now multithreaded. Has any one here deployed Rails in this configuration and is it stable?

See Scala for a concise static typed language.

Regarding tooling, Java has been massive investment in this area compared to ruby/python etc which is one of the reasons for it good IDEs.

I dont believe Duck typing and type inference are really the same thing.For duck typing the type is unimportant, it only cares about the operation, types matter for type inference. The behavior of structural typing in languages such as Scala are is closer to Duck typing IMHO.

Any idea if this book will be in mobi format? Manning support for kindle has been pretty poor so far.

Ahh ... that link brings me to a strange place.Avoid.

Great answer, thanks.

Why is it that the Navy never replaced the F-14 with a fighter with similar characteristics - speed, range, weapon range etc ?

The Atmosphere team have a good slide titled "Scaling the Asynchronous Web" which has a few pages one threads vs NIO https://atmosphere.dev.java.net/conferences/2009/JavaOne/200... .

There another clojure web framework called Conjure which is similar to Rails. Might be more to your liking - http://github.com/macourtney/Conjure .

"The European Union almost single-handedly took down Internet Explorer"

IE has been losing market share for years and this is hardly the EU fault.

This is not the first time MS have focused on their home market, for example Zune HD and the music subscription service is still not available in Europe.

Agreed and let’s not forget it’s a massive improvement compared to the old site.

Would you mind sharing some of your thoughts on lift? How does it compare to other web frameworks that you have worked with?

Maybe he talking about Scala Event-based actor which has many actors per thread?