Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths

Re:Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths by icedchai on Friday November 13, 2015 @03:32PM (#10562230)

The problem with Scala is it that it's too complicated. This results in slow compile times, poor IDE support, and on and on. I worked with Scala for about 10 months back in 2011. Never again.

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Re:Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths by joslin01 on Friday November 13, 2015 @03:45PM (#10562294)

I would probably be prone to agree with you in 2011. Things are very different in 2015 and it wouldn't hurt you to try. My devs all use IntelliJ with it and have never complained. I use vim personally :)

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Re:Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths by Babylonian on Friday November 13, 2015 @03:35PM (#10562243)

I've found IntelliJ support for Scala to be excellent. I can only guess that you were using Eclipse? IntelliJ does incremental compilation so most compiles take about 1 second typically.

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Re:Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths by icedchai on Friday November 13, 2015 @03:44PM (#10562287)

Yes, Eclipse was terrible. Perhaps it is better now. I'll take another look at IntelliJ though, thanks.

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Re:Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths by emergentcypher on Friday November 13, 2015 @04:20PM (#10562471)

None of these things are really a problem any more. Scala has come a long long way since 2011.

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Re:Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths by icedchai on Friday November 13, 2015 @04:48PM (#10562616)

I am going to give it another look. It has been quite a while.

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