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Re:The Road to Scala 3 by MrBuddyCasino on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:27PM (#21853949)
>With all that said, the church of FP and the hascalator community is a problem for Scala. Overly dogmatic & academic functional programming styles don't have a place in production systems.

Isn't Scala minus the problems you mentioned just Kotlin?

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Re:The Road to Scala 3 by cerved on Saturday December 21, 2019 @07:26PM (#21854248)
Does Kotlin have the maybe monad?
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Re:The Road to Scala 3 by solicode on Sunday December 22, 2019 @03:21AM (#21855926)
Not in the standard library. Kotlin went with specific language features to achieve null safety: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html

Personally, being able to solve problems with the abstractions you can achieve within the language over adding very specific language features to solve them appeals to me more.

Having said that, Arrow has Option: https://arrow-kt.io/docs/apidocs/arrow-core-data/arrow.core/...

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Re:The Road to Scala 3 by cerved on Sunday December 22, 2019 @04:49AM (#21856200)
Ok, looks similar to C#.

Honestly I prefer maybe monads to null coalescing

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