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Selling Scala to the PHB is an exercise in futility. What Scala needs is more success stories like the Twitter backend.

• hello_moto 15y ago
  Our field is a little bit weird. Twitter "success stories" (yes, with quote, since we never actually see the internal code of Twitter, and considering that they have many developers since that is their core) is probably not applicable to "business enterprise software". I believe there are attempts to fit solution for case X to case Y already in the history of software projects. I'm not sure if that went well.
  • cageface 15y ago
    Actually Twitter has open-sourced some of their core Scala code.
• nandemo 15y ago
  I think the problem is not just that the PHB will not see the benefits. It's difficult to hire people who know Scala -- or Haskell, Erlang, etc. Yeah, good programmers can learn it, but most companies who are hiring experienced programmers require experience in their language choice (even startups, just look at the job ads on HN).
  • VMG 15y ago
    exactly my thoughts during the presentation.
  • eru 15y ago
    From my own experience it's actually easy to hire Haskell programmers. There's some supply, and not very much competing demand at the moment.