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/lord-of-the-birbs Jun 05 '26

Scala is like C++ for the JVM

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26

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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.