Re:I was wrong, reflecting on the .NET design choices
by paulddraper on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:54PM
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Scala had a CLR target for a number of years, but getting the type system to work was so problematic it was eventually abandoned.
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Re:I was wrong, reflecting on the .NET design choices
by broiledegg on Saturday April 22, 2017 @07:01PM
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That's what I meant with: "That's largely an urban myth."
Re:I was wrong, reflecting on the .NET design choices
by emodendroket on Sunday April 23, 2017 @01:27PM
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I'm curious in what sense it was difficult to get it to work.
Re:I was wrong, reflecting on the .NET design choices
by paulddraper on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:17PM
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Perhaps not the best explanation but this the gist, as given by Scala's creator in an interview https://youtu.be/p_GdT_tTV4M
> It's harder then it looks, because .NET has a very rich type system which happens to be not the Scala type system. In fact, it's very hard to map some of the parts of the Scala types like higher-kinded types...so it's a difficult task, much more difficult than JS or LLVM. LLVM is likely going to be the third target [after JVM and JS] because there we don't need to fight a type system which is foreign to us, which is what the .NET one is.