Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java
by agentgt on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:55PM
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> A sane culture would produce couple of simple libraries solving different requirements. Insane would throw solutions to all the requirements and a kitchen sink into one big ball of mud mega-library.
Even Spring doesn't do this. Most Java libraries and frameworks are highly modularized via Maven.
Most complain they are too modularized and want an uber jar.
> It's not that hard to write a JSON parser.
Actually it really is [1]. You know a valid one that handles edge cases... something a lot of Java libraries do really well... handling edge cases requires complexity.
Even Spring doesn't do this. Most Java libraries and frameworks are highly modularized via Maven.
Most complain they are too modularized and want an uber jar.
> It's not that hard to write a JSON parser.
Actually it really is [1]. You know a valid one that handles edge cases... something a lot of Java libraries do really well... handling edge cases requires complexity.
[1]: http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php