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Right, now that it has been adopted by large companies it would be stupid to call it a hype anymore.

I guess a complete "Effective Scala" would still be a lot thinner than "Effective Java" due to tons of "best practices" being the default. :-) In the meantime, the Style Guide and …

Because they have the right to decide under which conditions others are allowed to use it? Most of the time (depending on the project) commercial entities never give back anything …

An Apple fanboy on HN. Oh Lord. I had hoped we had a saner community here.

Great overview, thanks! I added some new stuff to my reading list. :-) Just some notes from a Scala user: Regarding Units: I bundled some work done before by other people into a ni…

Because stopping to pay the soldiers who are deployed in two wars at the other side of the globe is a great alternative.

Let's wait until Jon Gruber educates us that this is the right thing to do.

Isn't that what most Linux environments actually do for years already?

This has nothing to do with each other. Classes with variable generic arities are syntax sugar provided by the C# compiler. Behind your back it will just create Function`0 Function…

Their bug tracker has a "Bogus" value? WTF? Well, PHP devs at its best: uninformed, ignorant, arrogant.

Not really. Unlike the US-style of multiple choice tests you are actually required to think, form an opinion, lay out considerations and cite facts (unless it is math). Teachers ac…

Mhhh. Kotlin is more than ten years late to the game. Considering that most people willing to learn something new already switched to Scala/Clojure/... and the rest won't consider …

A bunch of whining .... Seems like the US always want to be treated specially. Tell that to Greece.

Patents on math and software? Some people really live in a retarded country ...

"I believe these figures are implausibly low - and an insult to IE users." MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Could you elaborate?

Yes, sure. There is much less discrimination against "other" people on non-Apple platforms and that's great!

This is a great and honest article and has changed the way I think about Apple users/developers. Before that, I considered Apple users to be a group of gay douchebags, but today I …

It is still painfully slow, right?

You ignorance is so painful embarrassing, it almost hurts to read your non-sense.

What's wrong with List.of(...)? I think adding special syntax rules is a pretty bad idea.

Oh god. Please no, collection literals are the worst idea ever. Making up special rules for some special classes in a language? What the fuck!?

Mitigation would just have required to make an optimizer option non-default, like in 6.

It is more like C/C++.