Re: Scala package

[Shyam Saran <syamsaran12345@gmail.com>]

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It is helpful for our beloved OS -thanks
it will be helpful for app development.
At present, I do not know any of groovy, scala (will learn.)


On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 01:05, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> 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 :
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>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> syam
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>> On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 21:06, Katherine Cox-Buday <
>> cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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