"Though my tip though for the long term replacement of javac is Scala. I'm very impressed with it! I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
"In this article, see how you can use Scala as the primary development language on Android, allowing you to write mobile applications using a more-expressive, but also more type-safe, programming language."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
"...we talked about Twitter, the micro-blogging site currently enjoying tremendous interest among social-networking types, and how its XML-/REST-based API makes it an interesting playground for developers to investigate and explore. Toward that end, we began to flesh out the basic structure of "Scitter," a Scala library for accessing Twitter."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet