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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by atemerev on Sunday October 06, 2019 @05:24AM (#21170836)
This is what has killed Scala. It was a fine pragmatic hybrid language which perfectly combined FP and OOP. Now it is attacked by hordes of type astronauts which will look down to you if you are not using Tagless Final, Cats, or whatever new fad is now in vogue.
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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by sideeffffect on Sunday October 06, 2019 @02:34PM (#21173903)
If you (or anybody else) haven't given up on Scala just yet, have a look at ZIO

https://github.com/zio/zio/

It's a fresh, and pragmatic too, take on how to do pure functional programming, but without advanced concepts (like higher-kinded types).

could be (and maybe even has been) ported over to other languages besides Scala

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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by atemerev on Sunday October 06, 2019 @05:27PM (#21175279)
Yes, Zio is really interesting. Unfortunately, its author has been recently outed from the community for political reasons (and there is too much drama in Scala community in general). I only hope that the dust will settle someday.
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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by pjmlp on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:29AM (#21178333)
Just wait to see where it will take Kotlin with its Scala refugees.

https://arrow-kt.io/

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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by kaidax on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:47AM (#21179332)
The people making this library aren't Scala refugees - they're a Scala shop that uses Kotlin on Android only, so they decided to bring over their idioms.
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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by pjmlp on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:11AM (#21179487)
Stand corrected, but doesn't change the fact of what is coming to Kotlin as well.
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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by flavio81 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:16AM (#21200252)
> a fine pragmatic hybrid language which perfectly combined FP and OOP

Ah, so Common Lisp then?

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