"The difficulty of getting cable to "every last mile," is where Fred, the cable-carrying draft horse, comes in.
"Hopefully it pays off," says Hastings.
"We could maybe get a four-wheeler in here," he continues, gesturing to the cleared swath of boggy, fern-studded terrain that he's working in today. But definitely not a truck, and Fred's impact is nearly invisible. Residents rarely complain about a draft horse tromping through their yards.
When this project was started two years ago, it was probably a good idea. But now Scala has matured and has huge momentum.
Scala meets the need for a Java replacement and also provides compelling use-cases for switching, namely better concurrency support. Ceylon seems to abhor complexity while Scala welcomes it. But Scala's complexity is not essential; you can ignore it if you don't need it and use it if you do.
I think Ceylon's simplicity will prevent it from meeting the expectations of a lot of developers. Not to mention the other things it will be missing for a long time (even after they have a compiler and SDK) like IDE support and a wealth of libraries.
It's too bad that some of the most promising new languages (Scala, Clojure) are JDK based.
Scala runs on the
On that day all browsers will be HTML5 compatible or they will perish in the flames of user outrage.
People won't blame their browser (IE) they will yell at YouTube for needlessly breaking something that was working just fine. Seriously, users don't care AT ALL about the politics behind this. They just want IE6 to keep working. Well, "working" might be a generous description, but you get the point.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood
