I want to add that you can easily write your own compile pass for the closure compiler as well. All the optimisations described above are just compile passes.
My advice would be to incorporate it as part of your everyday life. Cycle to work, if you live far, get a battery assisted bike.
I am a massive fan of yoga as well, the general and core strength you need for that is incredible along with keeping your body limber (which helps fighting injuries and just generally helps with people sitting a lot).
Get in a pool and just go as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Take a short break, repeat. Do this for 15 minutes a day and you will experience a massive difference in your life.
High intensity training is very good and a pool exercises a lot of muscles, great cardio and very little strain on your body.
I'm surprised you mention swimming has changed your life. I was always suspicious of the way I had begun thinking of my life in terms of "Before Swimming" and "After Swimming" phases.
Has this been your experience too ? I used to bike an hour a day earlier, but swimming has done something else to my well-being and productivity.
Swimming with its deeply regulated breathing opened a door in my mind as far meditative exercise is concerned. It definitely altered the way I experienced exercise, friends who run long distances say similar things about that.
The transformative aspect that I was referring too however was not that, more that swimming as an exercise form is strengthening, incredible cardio and learning to breathe properly is a result of getting better at it.
If it is like the Wii U older titles will also work. Games like splatoon, mario u (we love playing this as a family)and all older titles (via emulation) should be available.
Why would you assume that wii u titles would work? The switch only takes cartridges, virtual console titles are already tied to the console and don't even carry between wiiu systems, and the switch uses an nvidia tegra (arm) architecture where as the wiiu uses powerpc and an AMD graphics chip.
Not even the wiiu controllers will work with the switch.
Only if they are available digitally (no DVD slot for Wii U discs) and only if Nintendo offers some digital game transfer program like they did between the Wii and the Wii U (digital games are tied to your console, not an account)
Closure does not compile java to js and closjurescript does not use any tech from gwt.
Clojurescript compiles to JS itself and then uses the Closure compiler (which is an incredible piece of tech) to compile js to js (not transpile, but actual compile).
I do this at home, hybrid my own urine and some fish. No weeds make it into my grow bed and the yield is high. I even use this water to water my other plants because of its high nutrient content. I power it all of an arduino.
I know you did not mean to say that scala code is non-performent.
Well written jvm is highly performant and with GC algos like concurrent mark and sweep or garbage first and a good allocation of eden, tenured (etc) space you should really never have a stop the world because of GC'ing anymore.
While it's true you should never stop the world for CMS in a server-side program where you can control memory tuning, newgen collection is still stop-the-world, and can cause multi-millisecond pauses on ~8GB heaps.
