Why we love Scala at Coursera
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Why we love Scala at Coursera
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#2This is a thing about Scala which gives me pause: it looks like gazing into the guts of the compiler puts one on a course towards a nervous breakdown.
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#3Anyone knows when Functional Programming and Reactive Programming classes are reopen?
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#4I think this is a nicely balanced article. Good to the see the pros and cons clearly laid out.
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#5This is a thing about Scala which gives me pause: it looks like gazing into the guts of the compiler puts one on a course towards a nervous breakdown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg
I asked someone in the know, and apparently Paul Phillips is always like that. He has an interesting background -- was a pro poker player for a while.
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#6My favorite quote from the article: "Python probably takes the cake for being regular. PHP gets cake in the face… Scala is somewhere in-between."
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#7All of the praise here for scala can be applied, verbatim, to Java itself. Some of the concerns are no different than Java (UTF-8), or are actually not a problem there (intellij IDE vs eclipse).
While the comparison to dynamic languages is valid, this is a rather shallow discussion of scala itself.
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#8What is the point of articles like this? I'm not trying to be snarky; I really am trying to understand why a company would go out of its way to advertise the technology its using.
Sometimes we see blog posts from devs at companies (often pretty senior) who write things like "We went with Clojure, and we've been really happy." That's clearly a geek-to-geek thing. But what is this? I mean, it's also geek-to-geek, but it's more "official." Users don't care -- they might have no idea what's even being discussed.
Honestly, it's hard not to read this kind of thing as, "We had a whole bunch of meetings where we debated what language/technology/platform to use. There was bitter, acrimonious warfare, but we don't want to be a company that is about warfare, so we're writing this post that makes the case for why the people on the side of the angels won the argument."
Re: Why we love Scala at Coursera
#9What is the point of articles like this? I'm not trying to be snarky; I really am trying to understand why a company would go out of its way to advertise the technology its using. Sometimes we see blog posts from devs at companies (often pretty senior) who write things like "We went with Clojure, and we've been really happy." That's clearly a geek-to-geek thing. But what is this? I mean, it's also geek-to-geek, but i…
For one, it's a good way to attract hires. As they mentioned, Scala developers are not as common as say, Java developers, so a post like this is a way to announce to Scala developers looking for work that Coursera is a potential employer - many people would view being able to use a language they like as a positive about a job.
Re: Why we love Scala at Coursera
#10What is the point of articles like this? I'm not trying to be snarky; I really am trying to understand why a company would go out of its way to advertise the technology its using. Sometimes we see blog posts from devs at companies (often pretty senior) who write things like "We went with Clojure, and we've been really happy." That's clearly a geek-to-geek thing. But what is this? I mean, it's also geek-to-geek, but i…
> I really am trying to understand why a company would go out of its way to advertise the technology its using
Simple - hiring.