What's the difference between Scala and Red Hat's Ceylon language?
- by John Bryant
Red Hat's Ceylon language has some interesting improvements over Java:
The overall vision: learn from Java's mistakes, keep the good, ditch the bad
The focus on readability and ease of learning/use
Static Typing (find errors at compile time, not run time)
No “special” types, everything is an object
Named and Optional parameters (C# 4.0)
Nullable types (C# 2.0)
No need for explicit getter/setters until you are ready for them (C# 3.0)
Type inference via the "local" keyword (C# 3.0 "var")
Sequences (arrays) and their accompanying syntactic sugariness (C# 3.0)
Straight-forward implementation of higher-order functions
I don't know Scala but have heard it offers some similar advantages over Java.
How would Scala compare to Ceylon in this respect?
