Re:Scala at scale at Databricks
by lmm on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:24PM
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> Spec2 is a terrible dsl that offers a shitty vocabular to write unit tests and makes the common path incredible difficult compared to junit.
Yes it is. Deprecate using it and migrate away from it. I hate that these shitty overengineered Cucumber wannabees are what "Scala" means to most people.
It's a great language IMO, but you need to make sure fancy frameworks pay their weight. IMO Shapeless and Scalaz-or-equivalent do - replacing reflection or AOP with plain old compiled code, even complex code, is a huge win. But SBT and the mess of Scala testing libraries are just huge complexity for marginal benefit.
Yes it is. Deprecate using it and migrate away from it. I hate that these shitty overengineered Cucumber wannabees are what "Scala" means to most people.
It's a great language IMO, but you need to make sure fancy frameworks pay their weight. IMO Shapeless and Scalaz-or-equivalent do - replacing reflection or AOP with plain old compiled code, even complex code, is a huge win. But SBT and the mess of Scala testing libraries are just huge complexity for marginal benefit.