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Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy?

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On 16.10.2014 14:27, Saxo wrote:

> All right, then I pick a language that is radically different which
> brings me back to Scala. Actually, this is starting to drive me nuts.
> Really ... What is your take on the matter? I mean not in a
> subjective way, but in an objective way.

First of all: there are no objective decisions.  What is good depends on 
your goals and how you weight them.

> To make a good decision you kind of have to predict the future, but
> you can still try to be objective with this.

Anything that involves predicting the future is shaky at best.  I think 
best you can do is to define your priorities and evaluate languages 
against them.  On top of that you can try to estimate which language is 
going to increase or decrease it's coverage of your goals in the next N 
years.

But the most important thing is: find out what you want, what is your 
goal.  You seem to be pretty undecided and the situation will not 
improve as long as you do not know where you are headed to.

Kind regards

	robert

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Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-10-16 05:27 -0700
  Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-10-16 21:15 +0200
  Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-10-16 16:28 -0400
  Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-10-16 19:13 -0400
  Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-10-17 06:34 -0700
    Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-10-18 22:42 -0400
      Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-10-19 11:00 -0700
  Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-10-19 11:03 -0700
  Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-10-21 05:48 -0700
    Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? ĵess stone <j3ss.st0n3@gmail.com> - 2014-10-22 06:34 +0000
  Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-10-21 15:10 +0200
    Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-10-21 07:09 -0700
      Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-10-21 16:26 +0200
        Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-10-21 08:03 -0700
    Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-10-22 07:22 -0700
      Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-10-22 17:14 +0200
        Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-10-23 08:53 -0700
          Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-10-24 00:37 +0200
  Re: Alternative languages on the JVM: what's a meaningful strategy? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2014-10-24 02:52 -0700

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