The backticks are more of an anti-feature than anything, and it's absolutely not a file or module/package level setting. (I think a lint-exclude at declaration

The backticks are more of an anti-feature than anything, and it's absolutely not a file or module/package level setting. (I think a lint-exclude at declaration site would also be okay.) > It's not the business of a language to judge what kind of code is "good". Well, yes, but no. Language design is just inseparably infused with judgement calls. Making things easy leads to them being used (as the backtick illustrates, making things hard reduces their usage, even if it sounds nice that it allows for special cases). But as you imply the language has to be flexible and thus powerful enough to provide the option of a seriously different design trade off. (Because backticks are just a bad compromise. It's not really switching to a different design choice after all.) > I hate such kind of "but we know better" behavior. I think that implies too much intent on the Scala core team, unfortunately the reality is - probably - that historically someone wanted something, it got done somehow, and that's it. (In the particular case of backticks maybe Martin really had a strong opinion. Dunno. Probably you have looked into this at least a few times if you considered a fork :) ) ... related to this the recent discussion about Rust's GAT (generic associated trait) feature is a very interesting case study in the intersection of language design, "project governance/management" (the reality of pragmatic compromises). There a small team spent at least a year developing GAT support for the compiler, and then a bunch of people were asked to decide whether to merge it. And it's a very unenviable position, because of course the work was not perfect. So what to do? In the end, I think at least, the narrative that was comfortable for everyone involved was that "this is the best version we can have realistically, and yes it provides net positive value in this current state". https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/96709#issuecomment-1212180492 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/96709#issuecomment-12...