Moving Back Into Java

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Well it has been a while coming but we have finally moved house. This is the last of the stress factors in our live so gradually we can get back to normal, we except for the having to decorate and fix up a new house. For the most part that means a proper return to programming in my spare time.

Oddly I find myself less motivated with JavaScript game development at the moment. I seem to be motivated to create some new android stuff. There are some app ideas floating around in my brain.

I am going to go with the flow on this one and shift back to Java/android for a while and see where it ends up. When creating games for android I tend to use LibGDX and that has a route to HTML5 so all is not lost on the web side.

I have also been reading a bit about Scala. I looked at it a few years ago and drifted away from it, returning to it now and it seems quite nice. Having written all of about 10 lines in it I am obviously qualified to comment on it. This is really a background task, I was looking around for a language that I can use as a 'learning' language. By learning I mean implementing things/ideas I read about. I considered python for a while but had a feeling that returning to a type language would be enjoyable after having done lots of JavaScript in my spare time this year. Oh I do C++ everyday at work so it is not like I don't use a type language.

My only worry about scala is the compile times. From memory they were worse than C++ and helped to put me off it a few years back. I hope things have improved.

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