Still pretty certain you would attract a lot more talent / downloads / interest
in general with Visual Studio Code (Typescript) and Stackblitz:
https://stackblitz.com/
It's essentially Kotlin but a lot more feature rich.
Ole
On 01/20/2018 12:00 PM, Matt Sicker wrote:
I've put out rc2 now that we have some fixes in place there.
My professional situation has changed since I proposed this. Nowadays, I've
been using Kotlin for a project, and I'd have to say that it would be far
more appropriate than Scala here due to being easier to learn as a Java
developer (or just in general) along with better overlap with Java best
practices (Kotlin is essentially a language inspired by Effective Java).
Plus, now that Android developers are getting more familiar with Kotlin as
well which could potentially attract contributors (besides being a hip cool
language or whatever).
On 13 November 2017 at 17:35, Ole Ersoy <ole.er...@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's a 10 minute video where an Angular timer application is built and
packaged for all desktops (Apple, M$, Linux - And all browsers) ... in 10
minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_vMChpZMCk
If you use the youtube speedup chrome extension you can probably set the
speedup factor to 2 or 3. That cuts it down to 3 minutes.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-playback-
speed-co/hdannnflhlmdablckfkjpleikpphncik?hl=en-US
Love that thing!
On 11/12/2017 11:37 PM, Ralph Goers wrote:
It feels to me that this whole topic has gotten side-tracked.
I think you first need to decide what you want to build before you decide
on technologies. Are you building a web application or a desktop? Of
course, there might be technology that lets you do both, to some degree. As
far as I know, the only viable language for web applications is Javascript,
unless you want to build browser plugins. While there might be more variety
in desktop applications, the usefulness might be more limited - but maybe
not. After all, there are still a whole lot of desktop based tools around.
But then you have apps like Microsoft Office where they have built a web
version and a Windows desktop version and a Mac OS desktop version. I have
no idea how much, if any, of that code is shared, but again, that is an
option that could be considered.
So again, before going down the rabbit hole of technology discussion,
what is the scope of what the next version of Chainsaw will be? Will it be
an upgraded version of the existing code base that uses something besides
Swing, will it be something else, or do we want multiple spin-off projects?
Ralph
