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Posted on May 2, 2010 by mhicks

Well, this is a great title for this post not only as it’s the first blog post I’ve made here in seven months, but I’ve also had the song from Portal stuck in my head lately. 🙂

Looking at my blog it would be easy to classify me as MIA but I’ve actually been quite busy in the open-source and have even been blogging quite a bit lately, just not here, but I’ll get to that in a minute.

First of all, my very basic last post talking about the entry-level learning I was doing with Scala was quite fitting as my last post as very shortly after that post I made a complete shift from Java to Scala programming. With this came the abandoning of lots of open-source projects I’ve either created (like jSeamless) or been a developer on (like jMonkeyEngine). I believe so strongly in Scala that I’ve shifted everything I possibly can to Scala.

Second, with the shift I’ve made to Scala and all the projects I’ve abandoned as a result, one new project has come to being that, in many ways, embodies much of the vision I’ve had for several projects I’ve left behind. That project is called “sgine” (Scala Engine). I’ve been developing on it for a while now and have made some major strides recently and finally wanted to make a re-appearance on my blog to hopefully start posting here again.

Now, at the beginning of this post I said that I’ve been blogging elsewhere. If you go to http://www.sgine.org you’ll see that it’s a blog filled up with posts regarding updates to the engine I’ve been developing. I’m really excited about this project and though many people have accused me of abandoning Java…and realistically that’s pretty much what I’ve done…I haven’t a regret for switching to Scala, it’s such an incredibly powerful language and has renewed my vigor in programming. For anyone considering looking into a new language I cannot recommend it enough.

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