Every Wednesday I publish #GeekListener – a digest of developers tweets about Java, Scala, microservices and so on. Today isn’t exception! So be ready to spend 2-3 minutes of your time on fresh tweets and my bad humor.

Meet the #GeekListener #7

Ismael Juma opens the digest with an eternal question:
 
 
 

17% said they are still using Scala 2.10 for work in the poll I posted yesterday. What's the main upgrade challenge? https://t.co/lTHmE2ix2Z

— Ismael Juma (@ijuma) December 10, 2015

Ismael, I want to answer the question. A reality is very severe, and most of developers still use Java 6 and Internet Explorer 8. Do you really wait from that 17% explanation regarding Scala 2.10?

Frank Greco is surprised by marketing skills of modern tech bloggers.

Is it me, or are technical blog titles becoming self-help tenets? I feel like I'm readying the TOC of Esquire magazine.

— Frank Greco (@frankgreco) December 11, 2015

And it could be really funny if it wouldn’t be so sad. I’m mean not Frank Greco, but these fucking bloggers who publish each second blog post about a programming language or a framework with titles such as:

• “5 strong advantages of ${{NAME_OF_FRAMEWORK}}”
• “10 reasons to use ${{PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE}}”

That’s what happens when SEO goes ahead of a content.

Daniel Westheide demonstrates a next level of developer’s seniority.

I love it when changes discussed in a meeting are implemented and deployed before the time scheduled for the meeting is over. ^^

— Daniel Westheide – @kaffeecoder@mastodon.social (@kaffeecoder) December 11, 2015

Cool story, Bro. But I heard a story about one developer who implemented changes and deployed them, before the meeting was started. So we still have to learn and improve a lot of things.

Sharat Chander quotes his Dad…

"You know less than you know." – My Dad. Great saying, Pop. Every day is an opportunity to #LearnMore. @java

— Sharat Chander (@Sharat_Chander) December 12, 2015

What can I say here? Just another quote:

“You know less than you know than you know…” ― Recursion

Actually something like this I remember from the “Game Theory” course on Coursera.

I guess that you missed for Java Haters…

If Java is the answer, I disagree with the question.

— Gojko Adzic (@gojkoadzic) December 13, 2015

So, Gojko Adzic, here is my question:

What programming language runs on more than 3 billion devices?

👁 GeekListener-java-troll

OH: "I don't get it. The garbage collector ran, but Java is still there…"

— ericasadun (@ericasadun) December 14, 2015

I don’t know how to comment this tweet? Any ideas? If you like this digest, you can read the previous one #GeekListener v.6

Dan Woods chooses Gradle!

https://twitter.com/danveloper/status/676374722452561920

Dan, I know such modern Java projects which use Maven. But with a small remark, these projects also use XML configs…

And in the end of the digest, some hacker news:

Someday people will look at the source and realize all the @scala_js libraries I wrote are secretly mining bitcoins in their user's browsers

— Li Haoyi (@li_haoyi) December 16, 2015

Nice joke, Li. It hink, it could happen when in hell would snows.

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