I’m glad to see someone else that loves objective-c as much as I do. It is delightful.
It’s a fantastic language and tools. I wish it had had more time to polish, expand, and potentially grow beyond mainly Mac and iOS before swift happened.
I bought a machine with a 75Mhz blue lightning "486" as an upgrade to a 386SX/20. It was sold as the budget 486 at the time, and I learned the lesson the hard way that sometimes budget really does mean a lot worse!
Performance wasn't great and compatibility was an issue more than you'd expect.
At Sense we make a home energy monitor that provides real-time appliance-level monitoring using machine learning. Hardware is indeed hard as everyone said it would be!
Nothing against scala specifically, just using Play-Java (which we are) means you are bound to using sbt and when debugging into play internals you are looking at scala instead of java.
DropWizard is fantastic, will check out rest-express. I think the thing I miss from both that you do get in play (and rails) is the front end templating, assets pipeline, and useful assorted bits tailored to quickly building a html/js/css/api web app.
So what is the right java web framework today? Play has gone down the scala route - is there really another rails-like web framework that today that would do what the author is asking?
It’s easy to not understand the impact or meaning of referring to violence in a flip way when one has never had to have experienced it.