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Honestly I've used Scala in production in 3 separate companies and ten years ago everyone realized that XML in the code was a terrible idea. No one serious doe
by JackFr 4y ago
Honestly I've used Scala in production in 3 separate companies and ten years ago everyone realized that XML in the code was a terrible idea. No one serious does it.
I'm working in Java now, but I thought Scala was fantastic. The problem was that it attracted functional programming puritans and the category theory astronauts -- both groups had some really good ideas -- but pragmatism is at odds with elegance and focusing on delivering business value versus developing knowledge of theory can be a tough balancing act.
- cutler 4y agoYes, around the same time Scala was really big in the London financial sector with Morgan Stanley championing the language. The Guardian's back-end also runs mainly on Scala. There were also monthly Hack The Tower all-day Saturday meetups for Scala and Clojure and the turnout for Scala was much higher than for Clojure though both had a decent crowd. The scene is lot less colourful since these days. All we have is Node and Python meetups, ie. boring stodge.