More examples, documentation, tutorial - really hard to get going

[eranation]

One of the best way to promote a new language / framework is to have a 5 minute getting started support

Examples

• MongoDB
• Ruby on Rails (thanks to engine yard and their rails installer)
• Play Framework (to a point)
• Node.js
• Newly (thanks to their native OSX and Windows clients) - Github

I REALLY want to have a static typed language, that is also functional as a replacement to JavaScript / CoffeeScript

This experiment is my dream come true, I love Java, but I love Scala much more, I think its the NBL (next big language)

This is going head to head with Dart (though at the moment not really a threat) and CoffeeScript as becoming the world standard, most growing language IMHO (see growth of node.js)

I don't think List (Clojure / ClojureScript) will gain mainstream support, although it's very cool,

here is my dream wish list

1. Scala IDE support of "ScalaScript"
2. Start to end examples
3. Debug "ScalaScript" directly in eclipse, mapping to the DSL itself (very, very challanging I assume)
4. ability to also debug generated javascript (using Chrome Developer Tools)
5. better refactoring tools for Scala/ScalaScript IDE (ctrl+1 should work just as in Java)

if you do the above, you will win both the enterprise world, and the startup world, two worlds not much connected these days

Writers of CoffeScript will appreciate Scala as it's not that far away, Ruby and Python developers will feel at ease eventually too, and Java Developers, GWT developers and any Spring / Hibernate enterprise engineers will appreciate a full stack IDE

Hope this doesn't come as a rant, but I really want Scala to become mainstream, and it's hard for me to see it's still not there

it has to be made more accessible, especially to the "hacker news" community, because they will eventually set the trend...

[eranation]

typo - wrote List meant Lisp (though it's a nice slip)

[julienrf]

Hi, that’s a research project, a lot of things are moving, hence the lack of documentation. We’re doing our best to repair JavaScript and allow to share code between server and client sides.

[eranation]

If there is anything I can do to help, let me know

[namin]

Hi, thanks for your suggestions and interest.
Totally agree that there's a lot to do to make this more user-friendly and production-ready.