Playlouder dev blog

And much as we bend Rails to our will, I am getting a bit jealous of these guys developing web apps with Scala - an elegant hybrid functional/object-oriented language with a powerful type-inferencing type system, Erlang-style Actors and other goodies. It compiles and runs fast on the JVM too and can access Java libraries in quite a native way. It’s kinda like Ruby plus OCaml plus Java minus the suck of Java.

I think it’s because the inner maths and type theory geek in me (the one who can never quite get over how awesome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry-Howard_isomorphism is) really misses having a powerful type system - and Scala’s does seem to hit the sweet spot when it comes to a middle ground between the bafflingly powerful Hindley-Milner extensions of Haskell and OCaml, and more accessible Object-oriented type systems with subtyping.

liftweb (or ‘Scala with Sails’ - see what they did there?) seems like a pretty neat framework too. I’m just plugging it so that someone else will do (continue doing) the work of making it sufficiently ‘enterprise-ready’ for me to use in ‘the real world’.