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"And he's pitching his new Scala book. And his new Scala book is published by O'Reilly. And O'Reilly runs the Web 2.0 Expo. ®" Timing is priceless.
by nessence 18y ago
"And he's pitching his new Scala book. And his new Scala book is published by O'Reilly. And O'Reilly runs the Web 2.0 Expo. ®"
Timing is priceless.
- sachinag 18y agoSo what? He likes Scala. Likes it enough to write a book in his spare time, of which he has precious little since he's, oh yeah, a full-time developer at one of the biggest, fastest growing sites on the face of God's green earth. So it's a (mild) conflict-of-interest (really, it's just a promotional opportunity). Doesn't make the arguments any less valid or his book any less worth picking up. Nice thing about code is that it's like science - every claim can be tested ad infinitum.
- Semiapies 18y agoAnd if the Scala reworking goes poorly, he presumably suffers, too. One idle thought: It'd be hard to eliminate the factor that they might be a better Scala dev team than a Ruby dev team. That's still, of course, a perfectly good reason to go to Scala.