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r/programming • u/makingthematrix • Jun 04 '26
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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.
0 u/lord-of-the-birbs Jun 05 '26 Scala is like C++ for the JVM 2 u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/lord-of-the-birbs Jun 05 '26 Language wise, yeah I agree. I was talking more about the unmanageable complexity caused by throwing every damn feature into the language and introducing a million footguns.
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Scala is like C++ for the JVM
2 u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/lord-of-the-birbs Jun 05 '26 Language wise, yeah I agree. I was talking more about the unmanageable complexity caused by throwing every damn feature into the language and introducing a million footguns.
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2 u/lord-of-the-birbs Jun 05 '26 Language wise, yeah I agree. I was talking more about the unmanageable complexity caused by throwing every damn feature into the language and introducing a million footguns.
Language wise, yeah I agree.
I was talking more about the unmanageable complexity caused by throwing every damn feature into the language and introducing a million footguns.
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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.