Re:What's Next for Scala
by lihaoyi on Saturday April 11, 2020 @02:52PM
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Author here. The full title is “The Death of Hype: What’s Next for Scala”, and the full title is significant. This article is as much about the initial hype and its decline as it is about the future prospects of the language. It very much isn’t an official or even unofficial roadmap for the language, which is what the shortened title makes it sound like.
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I posted it with the original title. I don't know why the HN moderators almost always change titles. Happened to me a couple of times.
I saw a lot of myself in your article. Came to scala in 2014 via spark, wrote a lot of OOP code and then slowly moved into the FP space. These days I find myself writing python a lot (for machine learning) but just miss the type safety net I get with scala
My take is that “death of hype” could be prefixed to a lot of article titles submitted to Hacker News. It’s not that it isn’t meaningful to you as the author or that it’s not a theme of the article or that Hacker News doesn’t encourage the submission of original titles. It’s that “death of hype” doesn’t make Hacker News better because it amps up the attack surface for low quality comments about the title, or Scala hype, or somebody’s least favorite hyped languages in general. Basically it opens the door to a lot of nonexpert comments of outrage without creating value for people who click the link because those people see “death of hype” with an <h> tag.