Re:Scala Center
by catnaroek on Monday March 14, 2016 @11:48AM
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Scala isn't “becoming” too big and too complex. It already is. But, if you dig deep enough into the implementation details, you will find that pretty much every production-ready language is too big and too complex.
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I wonder if people are having the same experience I had when I first encountered Scala.
I was the newest dev on a team that had an existing code base that was built around Spray, Akka, and Slick. And they wrapped an Actor around Slick so it "fit better". I've written tons of asynchronous code (Java, C++, Linux, and Windows) so that wasn't what got me. It was just how the original devs spent so much time making everything was an actor. Even in areas that didn't need to be.
At that point having never seen Scala, I just attributed it to the language vs the use of libraries.
Having now spent time with just the language, I like it. Just my introduction was jarring because of all the "everything must be asynchronous" nature of the code base I "learned" on.