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I think it’s nice to be able to use it. But like pretty much everything in scala, it’s a huge smorgasbord of things from which you can choose. I personally don’
by dionian 11mo ago
I think it’s nice to be able to use it. But like pretty much everything in scala, it’s a huge smorgasbord of things from which you can choose. I personally don’t use that syntax, but it’s cool that I can and sometimes I do just for fun.
- jll29 11mo agoA language should not be complicated. (Wish Odersky, capable as he is, kept working on his much-verlooked TurboModula). Simple: - Scheme - C - Pascal - Go - Lua Complicated - PL/1 - C++ 2024 - Scala 3 Still borderline or beyond? - Rust - Java (>850 pp. lang. specification...)
- still_grokking 11mo agoExtremely weird list. The Scala spec is much shorter than the C spec… Also it's of course much shorter than Rust, where nobody has a real issue with its complexity, at least nobody is complaining really loudly. The C and Go specs are actually extremely involved, long, and complex given that the languages almost don't have any features at all. But comparing language specs isn't a 100% fair metric. One should instead look at formal language semantic definitions written all in the same way. If you look at these you will for example learn that the C semantics are much more complex than for example Java. Check out https://kframework.org/ https://kframework.org/ to learn more. (A list of semantics for different languages can be found on the "projects" sub page).