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Just came back from a SDForum meeting organized by its emerging technology SIG. The topic was about the 4 languages in the title. It’s not much about any emerging technology per se, but pretty controversial among the developers.

The organizers invited four panelists and one moderator:

• Clojure advocate – Amit Rathore, author of the forthcoming “Clojure In Action”
• Go advocate – Robert Griesemer, Google, co-author of Go
• Scala advocate – David Pollak, lead author of Lift
• Ruby advocate – Evan Phoenix, lead developer of Rubinius, a high performance Ruby VM
• Moderator – Steve Mezak, co-chair of the SDForum Software Architecture and Modeling SIG, author of Software without Borders

Each of the panelists had 10 minutes of introduction of the language in the first part. Then, they all answered questions ranging from language strength/weakness, library/tool/IDE support, application framework, advice on migrating existing codebase, to how these languages compare to each other.

Here are introductions from the languages’ homepages. See if you can map them to the languages.  Read more... (628 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)