Re: So, out of curiosity.. who here IS using Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Jython, JRuby, Beanshell, Rhino, Nice, etc?

Well... doing a webapp and pulling in something like Lift would probably be
OK.  Yeah, it means learning a framework as well, but I think having a nice
well-known problem / domain would make things more interesting.   The one
Grails book "Grails In Action" uses a Twitter-like app as it's tutorial
app... we could do something similar to that, just in Scala.

Anybody up for doing something like this, and learn some Scala?


Phil

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Chris Bredesen <[email protected]>wrote:

> I can see two pitfalls to doing such a hack night with no prior "state":
>
> 1. We get wrapped up in learning a framework instead of the language.
> 2. We get wrapped up in defining the problem instead of implementation.
>
> So I guess we mitigate #1 by sticking to something that is more algorithmic
> and not like a full-on web application.  We could mitigate #2 by reinventing
> a blog, Twitter, chat or something ultra-well-known. No bickering about
> requirements or functionality :)
>
> What say you?
>
>
> On 05/13/2010 04:42 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
>
>> That would be cool.  Do you have an itch to scratch, that might make a
>> good use for Scala?  I mean, we could always do one of the "hello
>> worlds" of projects (eg, a web 2.0 to-do list or a twitter clone) but it
>> might be cooler to do something that somebody actually wants to work
>> on.  Most of the stuff I think I *might* have a use for Scala for - in
>> the near future - would be back-end services like graph processing,
>> etc.  Not sure if anybody else would find that kind of thing
>> interesting...
>>
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Chris Bredesen <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 05/13/2010 03:16 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
>>
>>        Does out JUG constituency have any users of the "alternate JVM
>>        languages?"  I'd especially be interested to know if there are
>>        any other
>>        clojure or scala fans here, as I'm planning to start putting
>>        some effort
>>        into both before long.  Doing a lot of work with Groovy / Grails
>>        at the
>>        moment, FWIW.
>>
>>
>>    I've been looking for an excuse to write some Scala.  Lisp doesn't
>>    float my boat that much so I haven't had a real hankering to use
>>    Clojure much...
>>
>>    If we could come up with a mini project in some social setting like
>>    a hack night, I might be up for it.
>>
>>    -CB
>>
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