The Origins of Scala (2009)
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The Origins of Scala (2009)
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Re: The Origins of Scala (2009)
#2Scala was the second programming language I learned (the first was Java). I think I'm quite lucky to have picked up a language like Scala so early in my programming journey. It made it very easy for me to learn new programming languages, since it made it easy to support wildly different paradigms (which is also what makes it hard to use in an enterprise environment).
Re: The Origins of Scala (2009)
#3Scala is a great language. It's a little bit disappointing that Kotlin is the JVM language that's gained so much traction instead.
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#4Scala is a great language. It's a little bit disappointing that Kotlin is the JVM language that's gained so much traction instead.
Except when you chain many collection operations... then it breaks horribly.
Re: The Origins of Scala (2009)
#5Scala is a great language. It's a little bit disappointing that Kotlin is the JVM language that's gained so much traction instead.
Except when you chain many collection operations... then it breaks horribly.
Can you elaborate on what you're referring to? I can see performance becoming a problem if you repeatedly chain non-optimisable (in bytecode) as excluding the in place operations I believe all ops re-allocate the collection.
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#7Scala is a great language. It's a little bit disappointing that Kotlin is the JVM language that's gained so much traction instead.
They really obliterated their momentum with how they went about Scala 3, unfortunately.
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#8Have error messages improved? I remember trying it few years back but the error messages made it hard to debug. Is it due to use of JVM? Sorry for my lack of knowledge since I rarely program in JVM based languages.
Re: The Origins of Scala (2009)
#9Scala is a great language. It's a little bit disappointing that Kotlin is the JVM language that's gained so much traction instead.
They really obliterated their momentum with how they went about Scala 3, unfortunately.
Why is that? I think they did a lot of things right. Offer automatic conversions, backwards and forwards compatibility from a sufficiently recent 12.x version.
I think mostly Kotlin being simpler and Java gaining features ate the lunch. Also, software like Akka and Spark becoming less prevalent hurt because they were big reasons for devs to learn the language. Not to mention the community drama.
The only bad thing was that it took quite long for Scala3 to become available leading to a lot of stagnation.
Re: The Origins of Scala (2009)
#10Scala is a great language. It's a little bit disappointing that Kotlin is the JVM language that's gained so much traction instead.
I've used both fairly extensively. Scala is just "too much". Kotlin is perhaps not enough, but that's better than too much.