Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp

Re:Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp by noisy_boy on Saturday April 08, 2023 @11:38PM (#35499877)

> There's a particular style of scala that involves bringing in and stringing together dsls. Which is both extremely powerful, and can make code completely unreadable to someone who doesn't know that exact combination of packages.

This is main point which, more often than not, turns out to be a negative for Scala (there could be specific circumstances where this may be a big positive but, usually not).

The rule of thumb for me for Scala code is, only follow constructs/idioms/style mentioned in the Scala Book[0]. Most of the time, everything else is unnecessary trouble.

[0]: https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/scala-book/introductio...

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Re:Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp by Kamq on Sunday April 09, 2023 @11:21AM (#35503575)

> there could be specific circumstances where this may be a big positive but, usually not

I mean, I think that those circumstances would be a solo passion project.

I still think scala is a beautiful and expressive language. But I think that expressiveness actually inhibits collaboration. If you're expressing novel thoughts in a novel way, you've added syntactic overhead to the already significant conceptual overhead.

So, yeah. Quite personally rewarding, but I can't recommend it for a work project in good faith after having worked in it. Enterprise projects should probably use java/kotlin if they want to be on the jvm, or go/python/js if they don't.

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