Re:From First Principles: Why Scala?
by jjav on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:26PM
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> You could've easily mistaken our team for a programming language research group at a university.
I had the misfortune of working with basically this same team, on scala (of course).
I argued for maintainable simple technology but scala was too hip to pass, for many.
Still remember one meeting trying to decipher a bug and while reviewing the code in question the lead scala fan said "It is not reasonable to expect to understand what code does by looking at it. I'll need to go research this for a few days."
I hope to never see scala (or its ilk) ever again. Give me the most stable language and environment, where every question is a FAQ and every odd behavior is documented in every book and I never need to fall into the rabbit hole of language traps. Then I can just work on building the product, which is the whole point.
I had the misfortune of working with basically this same team, on scala (of course).
I argued for maintainable simple technology but scala was too hip to pass, for many.
Still remember one meeting trying to decipher a bug and while reviewing the code in question the lead scala fan said "It is not reasonable to expect to understand what code does by looking at it. I'll need to go research this for a few days."
I hope to never see scala (or its ilk) ever again. Give me the most stable language and environment, where every question is a FAQ and every odd behavior is documented in every book and I never need to fall into the rabbit hole of language traps. Then I can just work on building the product, which is the whole point.