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> Good article. Disconcerting that all of the comments are from men though... How do you know they are men, and why did you bother to check?

> focus on your craft, because your skills will speak louder than your gender. The post is about her gender. None of it even mentions what she built. Am I a jerk for pointing that …

Is there any linters available for IDE's to ensure conformance with a vanilla ruleset of scala? If that existed, scala would be able to shape itself up nicely.

For those who don't understand: Scalaz is an additional layer of syntax and tricks on top of what is already there. It seems to have quite a lot of power! implicit val option = new…

There is such a thing as idiomatic scala? How? Care to elaborate?

Basically I've seen this in person. Scala was driving the last startup I was in to the ground. The thing that fascinates me is scala is like an art. It's like a new Obfuscated Perl…

He says the compiler implementation is a mess. he's still a contributor and involved in the language. The implementation is a mess because the specification permits so much grammar…

This isn't an accurate depiction of what scala ends up looking like. If all scala stuck to simple idioms like in the example, it'd be an excellent language.

(throwaaway here) Before you waste the next few months of your life learning a corrupt programming language: - Typesafe co-founder quits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJycy6dFS…