Talk:Erasure

come on man, what's the point of having 7 links to the same one page in rss item for this page

--OlegYch 21:39, 19 October 2011 (CEST)

I have been a Java and C++ developer for more years than I would like to admit. A rencet career move has led me into a .Net- only world. Your statement about Java as a language being crusty, C# is better, but Java has the best libraries, resonated with me. When you work exclusively in the .Net realm, the sense of open source community is essentially non-existent when compared with the Java community. Sure, you have codeplex and a few other MS sponsored efforts...but it's simply not the same.However, in this situation you can have your cake and eat it too. Your statement "If you could write C# code with Java libraries, you'd really have something". Well, you can to a large degree with IKVM. It really does work, it's technically sound, and since Sun opened the Java runtime, it's even more practical. The efforts of the folks behind GNU Classpath made IKVM viable many years ago. Try IKVM out on your favorite Java library and I think you will be impressed.

--Nanda 05:18, 21 October 2013 (CEST)

Great post, Neal.As a language fan, it's fun to gaze on this list, but what raelly gets my attention is that you are _using_ Ruby.That scores big props from me because you are dealing with real world issues: teams, installs, packaging, unit testing, etc.As language amateurs (recall that amateur is, loosely, 'lover of' in French), it is easy to say 'oh language X would be a blast'. But often that is for home projects; it is seductively easy to ignore all the logistic details of a real project. e.g. I have no idea how I would package a Lisp app. (I'm sure one can but usually I think of lambdas, not 'how do i deploy').Mikeps. Count me in the Python camp!

--Cadeaux 10:16, 21 October 2013 (CEST)