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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by binary132 on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:07PM (#45806044)
I’m having a hard time envisioning a project that could be killed by choosing Scala that wasn’t actually killed by bad engineering. Scala is pretty easy to write Just Simpler Java in….
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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by xwolfi on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @03:00AM (#45808519)
The fact that it's simpler Java makes it a good candidate for failure: it tries to remove from the code enough to make it hard to maintain.
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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by cozzyd on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @12:34PM (#45813619)
Perhaps it's running on a semi-embedded system...
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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by JuniperMesos on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @05:23PM (#45816541)
I would say that Scala is more complicated than Java because it introduces a number of useful new features to a JVM language.
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