Re:Monads and GATs in Nightly Rust
by valenterry on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:16PM
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You are right with your concern.
Fortunately, when you look at the latest version, Scala 3, you will see that they put more effort into simplifying the language and removing things that people complained about than adding new things.
To be a bit more concrete:
- Remove certain ways of using implicits and making them less confusing
- Cleaning up the language core and removing features (such as impure macros or constructs that are rarely used or confusing)
- Making syntax easier for many cases without adding new features
- Adding union types (comparable to typescript). This is a new feature and not a small one, but I think it will make the language easier to use for many people.
And I think union types and intersection types are a very practical thing to have. So all in all, I'm happy to see that Scala becomes more practical and less esoteric with this release.
Fortunately, when you look at the latest version, Scala 3, you will see that they put more effort into simplifying the language and removing things that people complained about than adding new things.
To be a bit more concrete:
- Remove certain ways of using implicits and making them less confusing
- Cleaning up the language core and removing features (such as impure macros or constructs that are rarely used or confusing)
- Making syntax easier for many cases without adding new features
- Adding union types (comparable to typescript). This is a new feature and not a small one, but I think it will make the language easier to use for many people.
And I think union types and intersection types are a very practical thing to have. So all in all, I'm happy to see that Scala becomes more practical and less esoteric with this release.