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I have heard that Twitter is now moving away from Scala.
are there any other big company relying on scala for their core infra ?
Learning Scala is such a pain. Either you follow a large book completely and master it across several months/years or go through overly complicated online guides and get discouraged. I understand it's a large, advanced language, but the community has to seriously work on making things a bit easier for beginners like me. Just look at how easy it is to learn Go or Rust, their official tutorials are amazing and free on…
are there any other big company relying on scala for their core infra ?
My biggest problem with Scala is that it's too powerful. Reading code I've written weeks or even days later is painful. Conciseness is not always good.
are there any other big company relying on scala for their core infra ?
Learning Scala is such a pain. Either you follow a large book completely and master it across several months/years or go through overly complicated online guides and get discouraged. I understand it's a large, advanced language, but the community has to seriously work on making things a bit easier for beginners like me. Just look at how easy it is to learn Go or Rust, their official tutorials are amazing and free on…
I agree about painful learning curve for Scala. Problem I think in very divergent community and in different approaches for a every single problem (unlike for example Python or Go): OOP vs FP, Typesafe vs Typelevel, scalaz vs cats, Cake Pattern vs sanity. There's a also a problem that most powerful Scala techniques are there "by accident" [1] and unlikely will (or should) appear in official guides. Also I disagree th…
However, I do feel like you're right. For instance, the section on XML literals probably should have been avoided, since that feature doesn't fit nicely with the rest of the language and most of the time isn't necessary to know.