Scala was fun before Typelevel broke the community. I liked Scala when it was a pragmatic, hybrid FP-OOP language, with a powerful actor model implementation.

Scala was fun before Typelevel broke the community. I liked Scala when it was a pragmatic, hybrid FP-OOP language, with a powerful actor model implementation. Now, OOP became a curse word, and if you do not do purely functional code with tagless-final and don’t know the definition of free monad by heart, you have no business writing Scala code (I like pure FP too, but if I want to write Haskell code, I can do it in Haskell), and the community drama with “typelevel/cats vs Scalaz” and “typelevel vs zio” was too much for me to handle. The new community is too toxic for me to continue writing anything in Scala. The only bright point in Scala is lihaoyi’s ecosystem, which is sane enough to actually use, but it is too much to maintain for a single person, and it is losing momentum. So I quit, and moved to Common Lisp, which is interesting and pragmatic enough.