(excerpts from emails I sent my co-workers at Northwestern University)
Did some reading on Scala, Groovy, and JRuby. I'm interested in adding another language to the devel team's repertoire, a JVM-based language that interoperates smoothly with Java code so we could write new code in the new language without being forced to change existing code. I'm particularly interested in having a more powerful language than Java to use for
| Welcome to Scala 2.12.4 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.8.0_131). | |
| Type in expressions for evaluation. Or try :help. | |
| scala> :power | |
| Power mode enabled. :phase is at typer. | |
| import scala.tools.nsc._, intp.global._, definitions._ | |
| Try :help or completions for vals._ and power._ | |
| scala> println(nodePrinters.nodeToString(reify { List(1, 2, 3).map(_ * 2) }.tree)) | |
| Apply( |
| scala> Array("a", "b", "c", "d") | |
| res0: Array[String] = Array(a, b, c, d) | |
| scala> res0.view.slice(1, 3) | |
| res1: scala.collection.mutable.IndexedSeqView[String,Array[String]] = SeqViewS(...) | |
| scala> res1.toList | |
| res2: List[String] = List(b, c) | |
| scala> res1(0) = "zzz" |
| scala> trait T; class C[T2 <: T](val t: T2, b: Boolean = true, n: Int = 0) | |
| defined trait T | |
| defined class C | |
| scala> val t = new T { } | |
| t: T = $anon$1@f2a1813 | |
| scala> new C[t.type](t) | |
| res0: C[<refinement>.type] = C@7645f03e |
| * 049f0ec06c (origin/HEAD, origin/2.12.x) Merge pull request #5936 from adriaanm/i10244-bitmaps-for-fields | |
| |\ | |
| | * 5f86b1d94d Drive bitmap computation from field, not accessor | |
| * | e72ab5ad07 Merge pull request #5940 from janekdb/topic/2.12/intellij-code-analysis-unused-format-args | |
| |\ \ | |
| | * | 7eb861cb22 Remove unused format arg in interpreter echo | |
| | |/ | |
| * | 2c50123696 Merge pull request #5822 from lrytz/t9937 | |
| |\ \ | |
| | * | 04d4f4c61a SI-9937 find nested java classes if InnnerClass entry is missing |
| * 049f0ec06c (origin/HEAD, origin/2.12.x) Merge pull request #5936 from adriaanm/i10244-bitmaps-for-fields | |
| |\ | |
| | * 5f86b1d94d Drive bitmap computation from field, not accessor | |
| * | e72ab5ad07 Merge pull request #5940 from janekdb/topic/2.12/intellij-code-analysis-unused-format-args | |
| |\ \ | |
| | * | 7eb861cb22 Remove unused format arg in interpreter echo | |
| | |/ | |
| * | 2c50123696 Merge pull request #5822 from lrytz/t9937 | |
| |\ \ | |
| | * | 04d4f4c61a SI-9937 find nested java classes if InnnerClass entry is missing |
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> | |
| <config xmlns="http://artifactory.jfrog.org/xsd/1.7.3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jfrog.org/xsd/artifactory-v1_7_3.xsd"> | |
| <offlineMode>false</offlineMode> | |
| <helpLinksEnabled>true</helpLinksEnabled> | |
| <fileUploadMaxSizeMb>100</fileUploadMaxSizeMb> | |
| <dateFormat>dd-MM-yy HH:mm:ss z</dateFormat> | |
| <addons> | |
| <showAddonsInfo>true</showAddonsInfo> | |
| <showAddonsInfoCookie>1430275670992</showAddonsInfoCookie> | |
| </addons> |
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6A3FpfEJG8
Surfboards, suntans, and... Scala?
Your hosts this episode: Dick Wall, Daniel Spiewak, Heather Miller,
| ~/tmp/scalaz-fold % sbt | |
| [info] Loading global plugins from /Users/tisue/.sbt/0.13/plugins | |
| [info] Set current project to scalaz-fold (in build file:/Users/tisue/tmp/scalaz-fold/) | |
| > set scalaVersion := "2.11.8" | |
| [info] Defining *:scalaVersion | |
| [info] The new value will be used by *:Additional arguments for the presentation compiler., *:allDependencies and 24 others. | |
| [info] Run `last` for details. | |
| [info] Reapplying settings... | |
| [info] Set current project to scalaz-fold (in build file:/Users/tisue/tmp/scalaz-fold/) | |
| > set libraryDependencies += "org.scalaz" %% "scalaz-core" % "7.2.4" |
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhfuuWm3SHE
Scala Days NYC happened and two of us were there. And the Scala Center launched, with Heather as its Executive Director.
Your hosts this episode: Josh Suereth, Dick Wall,