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It's hard to answer meaningfully without risking starting a pointless debate in the comments or being fully honest, but I will try: There are two FP ecosystems
by amval 4y ago
It's hard to answer meaningfully without risking starting a pointless debate in the comments or being fully honest, but I will try:
There are two FP ecosystems inside the Scala community with a very adversarial relationship towards each other. The root is that many years ago the lead developer of one of those FP communities allowed (based on community feedback) a speaker to give a technical talk. There were some people demanding that he'd be cancelled based on his right-wing views. This evolved into a full-blown conflict with serious accusations over the years about political alignment.
I am not a member of the Scala community but are interested on the language and somehow this conflict kept popping up. I agree with the author about the "US political landscape" microcosm: the conflict felt absurd and completely blown-out of proportion to me as an european.
- threeseed 4y agoNote this all happened years ago and thankfully the community has very much moved on. Travis one of the guys involved has even left Scala to do his activism work full-time.
- hocuspocus 4y agoI don't think the community was allowed to move on. JdG has repeatedly behaved like an asshole and poured fuel on the fire with Typelevel people who never cared about that original LambdaConf drama and his feud with Travis. Instead of moving on, he decided to make more ennemies, to the point several library maintainers don't want to touch anything even remotely related to Zio.
- bigbillheck 4y agoThat speaker wasn't just anybody with 'right-wing views', it was 'Mencius Moldbug' himself. (See, for example: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/09/technology-communism-and-brown-scare/ https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2013/09/technology-...)
- amval 4y agoI think I meant "fair-right" (that's why there was a hyphen) and wanted to avoid a more exact characterization to avoid sparking a debate around it.
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