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thanks for the book and blog! what do you think of Scala adoption and prospects these days

• lihaoyi 6y ago
  I think Scala adoption is doing great. A lot of the initial hype around things like Akka and Pure Functional Programming has died down since the frothy excitement of 2015-2016, but honestly I think a lot of that hype was oversold and many of these things never quite lived up to their original excitement. Right now, the level of hype has fallen back to where the real value is: a solid language allowing flexible styles to suite a wide range of use cases, as concise and convenient as any scripting language, with excellent performance, tooling, and static checking to prevent defects. With this book, I'm obviously hoping to drive adoption and prospects up, and I'm doing so by trying to sell the value prop above rather than the value props that were (over-)hyped in the 2015-2016 era
  • theCodeStig 6y ago
    I agree that Akka was over-hyped, and over-used. I don't think that pure FP is or was over-hyped. It is, however a large reward for a large time investment to learn. Many simply don't have the time capacity or motivation to completely change their mindset from imperative programming.