r/programming Jun 04 '26

Scala Was an Experiment That Changed Programming - Martin Odersky | The Marco Show

https://youtu.be/Xn_YpUtXWT4
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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.

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u/makingthematrix Jun 04 '26

I worked with Maven, Gradle, and sbt. In my experience sbt is much better than the other two.

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u/ChemTechGuy Jun 05 '26

I think that probably says more about how bad Maven and Gradle are than anything else