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Re:Why does Mill use Scala? by hcarvalhoalves on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:39PM (#43043293)
> I also think that now that LLMs are on the rage, how much context do you think they have for bespoke config language vs Scala vs Python? I think we know the answer to that one.

Nothing against Python, but of all the reasons to choose a technology, whatever is more represented on the dataset of some LLM is the worst reason.

This is a death spiral. There's no hope for the future of this industry if newcomers are thinking like this.

Re:Why does Mill use Scala? by iforgot22 on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:42PM (#43043328)
I cared about programming languages when I was a newcomer. Stopped caring about 10 years ago. They're just tools, each with their own gotchas and different design choices I couldn't care less about. Between two tools that both work ok, I will definitely pick whichever one my team and I can learn the easiest, and that includes LLM coverage.