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I wish Scala leaned into being a Haskell-like (opinionated statically typed functional language) for the JVM rather than a kitchen sink.
by bcrosby95 4y ago
I wish Scala leaned into being a Haskell-like (opinionated statically typed functional language) for the JVM rather than a kitchen sink.
- suresk 4y agoThere was definitely a large and vocal part of the community that wanted that, but I think early on there was a lot of tension between Scala being "better Java" and "Haskell for the JVM", and that probably hindered a lot of adoption.
- gigatexal 4y agoHmm I was thinking of learning Scala. Good to know it’s on the down trend.
- kaba0 4y agoI wouldn’t take these trends too seriously - scala is still huge, and the recent revamp (scala 3) might turn that “trend” around. Also, learning a language with new idioms is always worth it, regardless of whether you end up using it.