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I'd absolutely love to hear what language you're using that's superior and not a "90s language" then. Pretty sure most of the popular languages date back to then if not a decade or two earlier. I find it especially amusing you cite typescript and the node ecosystem as superior. I've never seen such an unreliable and constantly changing ecosystem with dozens of frameworks and libraries ever in recent history.
Having used Scala I can't stand to go back to Python. Almost as lightweight (more lightweight in some places - case classes and "_ lambdas" are things I really missed in Python, though attrs maybe solves the first), but a whole lot safer, which makes it much easier to refactor, which makes it possible to maintain a much higher quality standard in a long-lived codebase. And the whole library/build ecosystem works a lo…
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#151Coding in scala is just like wearing this http://blogs.watoday.com.au/lifestyle/fearclothing/tacky2_co...
Scala is really bad designed. Odersky is too stubborn and doesn't seem to have real world experience, thus the chimera he created.
