Re:Java Is Underhyped
by pjmlp on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:18AM
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Did it?
The main company behind Scala changed its name and now also offers Java consulting.
Unless the project requires Spark, there is little reason to even care Scala exists.
Then there is the version 3.0 where they started having brain damaged ideas like changing the whole syntax.
Scala today is Kotlin in 10 years.
One benefit of being old in this industry is having survived multiple fashion waves of guest languages on each platform, then watching how those guest languages fade while the platform languages adopt some of their features.
Or even how whole platforms become irrelevant making it a complete moot point regarding whose languages are on the platform.
The main company behind Scala changed its name and now also offers Java consulting.
Unless the project requires Spark, there is little reason to even care Scala exists.
Then there is the version 3.0 where they started having brain damaged ideas like changing the whole syntax.
Scala today is Kotlin in 10 years.
One benefit of being old in this industry is having survived multiple fashion waves of guest languages on each platform, then watching how those guest languages fade while the platform languages adopt some of their features.
Or even how whole platforms become irrelevant making it a complete moot point regarding whose languages are on the platform.