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> Did Scala just start winning before Kotlin was around? Scala has about 2% mind share on the JVM after ten years in existence, I would say that not only is it not winning but its …

It's called humor. You should get some.

Probably that Scala is extremely verbose and boiler platey compared to Haskell as soon as you start playing with higher kinds. And when you use just regular Scala syntax, it's just…

tl;dr: America sucks for work when you don't have a college degree. Too bad OP doesn't realize that this applies outside of America too.

Fair enough. > You don't want to force them into signing anything, Actually, you do. The more you give the employee a chance to mull over the whole thing, the more likely they are …

> Friday is the worst Worst for the employee being laid off, best for the company doing the lay off. Reddit recently used that approach to announce Ellen Pao's "resignation".

Your advice is very humane and sensitive but it's definitely siding with the employees and not the employer. If you're an executive at that company in charge of doing the lay off, …

> This whole thing was really disgusting and made me hate the average Reddit user They are not the average Reddit user. Probably a huge majority of Reddit users have no idea who El…

Kickstart 1.3? What year is this, 1988? At least use a Kickstart 3.0.

All Java IDE's have offered an interactive shell for years so there is little need for a REPL. It's just a nice thing to have but nothing more.

All IDE's do. Please stay away from BlueJ, its compiler is terrible.

> for the simple reason that Java is designed to be mainstream, Not really. Java was designed to be practical, and it ended up being mainstream. Most languages want to become mains…

Play Kerbal Space Program with them, nothing will teach them about failure to launch more than that :)

> That doesn't mean other people can't use Haskell to build web applications. Very few companies do, though, so OP's point still stands. This article would be a much better ad for …

> it's getting kind-of hard to go on hating. Don't worry, most of their code base is still written in PHP.

It's always struck me as extremely bizarre that a company that regularly advertises that it's at the bleeding edge of software engineering practices (see Spolsky's numerous blog po…

Not very convincing. Maybe Patrick Naughton was in love with Objective C but there is little of that left in Java. Depending on which angle you look at, you could see Java's interf…

> I've seen startups killed by New Guy CTO Who Really Likes Java. Of course, that's simple statistics. Java is the dominant language out there so it's going to be the most used lan…

> Can you please list a few of the biggest reasons why? The main problem is the difficulty to hire Haskell programmers. Recruiting is crucial to a startup's success. Then there's t…

> Rewriting their app in Haskell gave them an 80% code reduction, Surely you don't think that's how you measure a startup's success, right?

I didn't say "no one". Any company big enough will have open positions for pretty much any imaginable language or technology out there. But picking Haskell as a start up is suicida…

> It is a hell of a secret weapon for startups. So secret that hardly any startups use it and hardly anyone has open positions for Haskell jobs... You have your work cut out for yo…

So basically everything that's been available on the JVM for more than ten years. I understand your excitement to finally have that if you didn't beforehand, but this is pretty old…

I don't think you understand the benefits of type checkers. Here are some: - Catching at compile time errors that would otherwise happen at runtime - Performance - Occasionally, it…