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The primary barrier for me is that every time I look at Scala, I think that this must be what a Perl and Java love child would look like. Granted, syntax isn't
by rufugee 17y ago
The primary barrier for me is that every time I look at Scala, I think that this must be what a Perl and Java love child would look like. Granted, syntax isn't a (sole) reason to discount a language, but gawd some of the code examples look really obscure. I can't imagine trying to read it on a day to day basis, no matter how powerful.
- samdk 17y agoI think Scala is more of a Java and Haskell/ML love child than anything else. Having used both of those, I found most of Scala pretty easy to pick up. The main thing I found is that there are a lot more syntactic constructions you have to be familiar with than in most other languages, because Scala borrows a lot from ML-like functional languages but doesn't really leave much out from Java, and then adds a few things along the way.
- qhoxie 17y agoIf you are not too familiar with functional paradigms, many of the code examples seems obscurely clever. The nice thing about Scala is there is always a procedural way of doing the same operation that is more digestible for most people. I find the trend in developers coming to Scala from languages like Java/Ruby/Python/etc is to begin with the latter and gradually improve technique toward the former.
- sandGorgon 17y agomy primary barrier is maven (I'm coming from Ruby and gems). I wonder why the sbaz (Scala-Bazaar package manager) is not the default, rather than maven.