Misfiring Neurons » jetbrains http://pavel.tcholakov.net Just another geek with a blog Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:14:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 JetBrains’ Dmitry Jemerov on Scala http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2008/06/jetbrains-dmitry-jemerov-on-scala/ http://pavel.tcholakov.net/2008/06/jetbrains-dmitry-jemerov-on-scala/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:08:55 +0000 Pavel http://kay.za.net/?p=66 I can rave about JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA until the cows come home - it is simply a superbly executed and very well focused product. What I found especially interesting  is the following quote on Scala becoming a dominant language for the JVM:

I don't believe that, however: Scala is very complicated, it's tricky, and has a lot of surprises and edge-cases. I would say that Scala is at least as complicated as C++, and with C++ you need a hundred-page style guide before you even start writing C++ code, otherwise you'll end up writing C++ code that nobody will understand.

Scala gives an impression of great elegance and simplicity at first glance but the same goes for Perl as well. The one feature of Scala I really like is the language-level support for traits which allow reusing multiple concrete implementations similarly to multiple inheritance, but with fewer gotchas.

Via Artima: JetBrains' Dmitry Jemerov on IntelliJ 8, Flex, and Scala.

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