Re:Scala turns 10
by platz on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:53AM
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I heard the internals of the Scala compiler are really ugly and there isn't a true spec for why it does some of the things it does. So it might be hard to just make it match what the existing compiler does, because it's defined by it's implementation and it's hard to understand?
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Re:Scala turns 10
by frowaway001 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:50PM
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Not really. Yes, some parts are a bit involved, but it's better thanmost compilers out there. People are complaining at a pretty high level here.
The death of the .NET port can directly be attributed to Microsoft's marketing of the platform. If they manage to make people question whether .NET will still be alive in 10 years, it's no surprise that people start dropping support for it.
My sample size is small, but the sentiment mainly comes from this: "Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 We're Doing It All Wrong by Paul Phillips - YouTube" [1]
Re:Scala turns 10
by frowaway001 on Sunday January 26, 2014 @06:12PM
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While I usually agree with most things Paul Phillips says, that talk was mostly an exception.
There is nothing which can't be fixed by focused work on all the bits and pieces which need work, and that's exactly what the scalac compiler developers are doing most of the time.
So many improvements are coming in every week that I can hardly stand using an older compiler version, because I always know that so much stuff has already substantially improved.
Despite what some people say, life in Scala-land is pretty damn good.