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> we found that it was easier to hero-code in F# What does hero-code mean?

• najarvg 6y ago
  Speculating, but based on context, probably "Cowboy coding" with heroic intent and success..
  • karmakaze 6y ago
    > easier to hero-code in F# but harder to work as a team Allowing hero-coding in any language makes it harder to work as a team, so using language that leverages hero output only makes it worse. I wouldn't say that the power of the language is the thing that should be blamed. I can certainly see that using constructs that the team as a whole isn't ready to adopt being a problem that also comes up in adoption of Scala.
• cogman10 6y ago
  Here's my stab at it (though I could be wrong). It's like perl, easy for experts to write a lot of it fast, but hard for anyone else to grok what's going on. As an anecdote, I see it come up with clojure a lot. Some of the clojure devs in my company can spin up a lot of interesting applications and fast. However, trying to read any of there code can be nearly impossible. Why? Usually because of a generous helping of their own metaprogramming constructs that they've built up over time. I've watched them program and it's both interesting and really hard to follow. The big problem we've ran into is these clojure projects have been really hard for teams to get into. As a result, the worst thing has happened, many of them are being scrapped and rewritten in java because they are too hard to maintain otherwise.
• Smaug123 6y ago
  "Hero-coding" is the kind of thing where you alone go into a fugue state for a week, and emerge on Sunday night, covered in blood and with your hair standing on end, holding a crystal redolent with eldritch power.