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I had a similar experience. I took the Odersky course and thought it was love, but soon found myself uncomfortable with the cryptic syntax of the ancillary libr
by partisan 10y ago
I had a similar experience. I took the Odersky course and thought it was love, but soon found myself uncomfortable with the cryptic syntax of the ancillary libraries and wondered whether I wanted to be comfortable with writing or reading inscrutable code.
I am currently giving Kotlin a shot and so far I do like it. I downloaded and installed IntelliJ, then the kotlin-dropwizard github repo and imported it into IntelliJ with no problems. It runs well and the code is clean and legible.
- wpietri 10y agoYeah. I definitely had the same issue with the libraries. For me the point of a language is to reduce cognitive load to something manageable. It wasn't clear to me than any human is smart enough to use Scala well, but I fell over enough of Eckel's cliffs that I was pretty sure I was not a good match.