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I've never shown a use of "implicit" to an experienced developer unfamiliar with Scala and seen them get excited about the language. The best case scenario is
by dangerlibrary 7y ago
I've never shown a use of "implicit" to an experienced developer unfamiliar with Scala and seen them get excited about the language.
The best case scenario is that they aren't instantly horrified / confused / repulsed.
- harryh 7y agoThere are a lot of tools in the world that are confusing at first but are extremely powerful and useful once you understand their use. implicit is one of them
- dangerlibrary 7y agoI never said it wasn't powerful.
- fiddlerwoaroof 7y agoThe one thing that I like about Scala is Spark which is a really good example of what something like implicits can enable
- sk5t 7y agoAutomatic capture of Manifest / type parameters might be the most immediately appealing thing to a Java person learning about Scala, I dunno. Maybe don't show them implicit conversion.