Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by MrPowers » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 11:45 AM UTC

Scala projects are difficult to maintain
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Re: Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by PaulHoule » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 12:22 PM UTC

This is so even at a low-level.

Look at the beautiful code examples in a Scala book and you might be seduced, but make a small change and there is nothing beautiful about it.

Re: Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by marcinzm » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 1:21 PM UTC

>Python projects that are built with Python 3.6 are usable in Python 3.7 projects for example.

This has not been my experience in the Machine Learning space.

Re: Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by nullifidian » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 2:09 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

This is so even at a low-level. Look at the beautiful code examples in a Scala book and you might be seduced, but make a small change and there is nothing beautiful about it.

Does rust have this issue? Anyone with experience?

Re: Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by syats » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 2:10 PM UTC

I have only marginal experience with both but.. isn't this the case also with java nowadays?

Re: Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by flurdy » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 2:11 PM UTC

> Difficult to publish to Maven

No more than Java, but also why most Scala projects publish to Bintray as it much smoother. Oh wait...

https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocen...

Re: Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by tormeh » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 2:11 PM UTC

nullifidian wrote: post #4

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

This is so even at a low-level. Look at the beautiful code examples in a Scala book and you might be seduced, but make a small change and there is nothing beautiful about it.

Does rust have this issue? Anyone with experience?

I love Rust, but it always looks ugly.

Re: Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by commandlinefan » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 2:13 PM UTC

Scala has a Lisp-like quality in that I feel like I should love it. On a certain, 30,000-ft level, I do, but when I'm actually trying to solve a real problem I usually end up just doing it in Java and then "translating" it back into Scala.

Re: Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by high_density » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

marcinzm wrote: post #3

>Python projects that are built with Python 3.6 are usable in Python 3.7 projects for example. This has not been my experience in the Machine Learning space.

for most simple HTTP webservers, python maintains somewhat OK-ish source/binary compatibility between python-versions. But my experience with scala was things breaking between scala-versions / waiting for some library to compile with next scala-version...

I'm surprised why scala couldn't solve it better than python -- I mean, scala's a compiled language, so it should have more wriggle-room...

Re: Scala projects are difficult to maintain

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Post by lindig » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

marcinzm wrote: post #3

>Python projects that are built with Python 3.6 are usable in Python 3.7 projects for example. This has not been my experience in the Machine Learning space.

Python is distributed in source code and it sounds like Scala dependencies are distributed as JAR files. The compatibility problems when moving compilers are not entirely unexpected, I'd say.