Re: Scala package

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

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I'll think about that. Note that we already have Groovy, as it's properly bootstrapped :)

Le 20 mai 2021 15:09:08 GMT-04:00, Shyam Saran <syamsaran12345@gmail.com> a écrit :
>Many people want to move all their development work on guix
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>example android sdk app development, yes scala, gradle, kotlin, groovy
>etc
>(even blockstack, ethereum) required to be packaged
>As many of you, and Julien trying this.
>
>So more than contributing code, please provide a blog post from which,
>who
>all want to help
>can also get guidance.
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>Thanks
>
>syam
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>On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 21:06, Katherine Cox-Buday
><cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>
>wrote:
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>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> I think the best way to bootstrap would be to reimplement Scala in
>> > another language. I tried that too, but even the parser is crazy.
>>
>> Yes, the syntax is complex. Maybe even worse than C++ in terms of
>> parsing. I abandoned scala awhile ago, but I saw that with its latest
>> release, maybe some things got simplified. Maybe it's worth another
>> look?
>>
>> > Could you share a link to that so everyone realizes just how far
>you
>> > went?  :-)
>>
>> Before I outright abandoned the language, I was looking into
>> bootstrapping this too. I did not go nearly as far, but was strongly
>> dissuaded by core scala contributers from even trying (to be fair,
>they
>> probably don't hold bootstrapping in high regard as we do).
>>
>> The only thought I have to contribute is: would it be possible to
>> bootstrap off of a binary seed, and then do what's possible to grow
>that
>> down to prior versions as much as possible? It's a compromise, but it
>at
>> least gets Guix into the scala ecosystem and provides scaffolding to
>> work off of. Of course this might run contrary to Guix's goals/needs.
>>
>> --
>> Katherine
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>>

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