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What does he mean by this? (Figuratively, or literally?): ”We’re left with the Scala FP communities, which yield awesome libraries and are awesome people, but
by SkyMarshal 4y ago
What does he mean by this? (Figuratively, or literally?):
”We’re left with the Scala FP communities, which yield awesome libraries and are awesome people, but the ecosystem is essentially a microcosm of the US political landscape. I’m guessing all programming communities are turning to this nowadays.”
- epgui 4y agoI have the same question.
- dionian 4y agoI just ignore the political people and often choose the libraries they hate, having a lot of fun
- jackcviers3 4y agoThey are speaking of the feud between ZIOs creator John de Goes and long-time Typelevel steering committee member Travis Brown (https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/01/jdg-and-the-fp-community/ https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/01/jdg-and-the-fp-commun...) and split the community along those same party lines.
- phillipcarter 4y agoSome other important context is this is around peak controversy time around codes of conduct in all programming communities. Some degree of political fighting was going to happen one way or another, but it was made substantially worse by decisions made by the Lambda Conf committee at that time to allow Curtis Yarvin to speak. You can read their rationale and it's clearly well thought-out, but in hindsight it led to a much worse outcome than if they just dropped him. Subsequent conferences after 2016 and 2017 were uneventful and uncontroversial, but the shadow of those years would never go away. It's also a very US-centric kind of political battle that I'm sure a lot of European Scala programmers feel is strange and doesn't apply to them, but has nonetheless taken their ecosystem by hostage.
- VirusNewbie 4y ago>Lambda Conf committee at that time to allow Curtis Yarvin to speak. Actually, it wasn't the "committee" that allowed it, it was a subset of speakers from under represented groups in tech (women, minorities, PoC etc whatever term you prefer) that voted to let him speak as long as he kept to his topic.
- phillipcarter 4y agoFeedback was solicited, but it was not a democratic process as is documented here: https://degoes.net/articles/lambdaconf-controversy https://degoes.net/articles/lambdaconf-controversy I have no stake in the process here. As I said, it was clearly well thought-out. But the outcome is regrettable.