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Re:Scala projects are difficult to maintain by anthonyskipper on Monday March 22, 2021 @12:54PM (#26543369)
A company wide style doesn't quite get it done. Is your style not to allow high kinded FP coding? (because it is too hard to understand). If so does that mean you don't allow libraries written in that style, like SLICK?

We had PHDs and very senior engineers, and they thought debugging common libraries like slick would take them weeks of work and they opted for avoiding that entire type of scala. But that is hard to do, because its a lot more than a coding style.

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Re:Scala projects are difficult to maintain by AzzieElbab on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:05PM (#26544377)
I do not think you do much high kinded Fp coding in slick other than "lifting" values from scala code to sql, though I havent worked with slick for in a while. I am not sure why they exposed internal types as we didnt really have any control over them
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