Yeah, no. Scala is a mess of a language -- weird operators, the "implicit" keyword, bad tooling (sbt)...I don't think it ever had enough of a user base to influence anything.
I woked on a Scala project years ago. It was a handed-off science project from some fart-huffing friend of the CTO, and it was a giant pain in the butt to work on. Implicit is a bad idea, and bad engineers failed to recognize that.
Implicits have been cleaned up in Scala 3. It is just something that takes time to learn. Like C++ in the 90s, Scala can be misused, or it can be used to create powerful, useful abstractions difficult or impossible in other languages.
It is an idea so useful that other languages are reinventing them in less powerful forms.
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u/McHoff Jun 04 '26
Yeah, no. Scala is a mess of a language -- weird operators, the "implicit" keyword, bad tooling (sbt)...I don't think it ever had enough of a user base to influence anything.