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I thought Pollak went on to Haskell after scala moved on without him. Hopefully the clojure community will learn from the mistakes of scala and not give him too
by dkhenry 13y ago
I thought Pollak went on to Haskell after scala moved on without him. Hopefully the clojure community will learn from the mistakes of scala and not give him too big of a platform to try and monetize.
- wpietri 13y agoCould you say more about the background here? Scala's been on my "maybe" list for years, and I'm still trying to figure out how popular it's going to end up being.
- stewbrew 13y agoDavid Pollak is the author of the lift framework. Typesafe chose Play as its web framework.
- dkhenry 13y agoIn addition he ran scala-tools.com which he opended up ( kindly) as a nexus host for lots of early scala tooling. However when Typesafe snubbed him he decided to divest himself of it, but not before asking someone to give him some money for the domain name ( we don't know how much he never said ). The community then needed to scramble for alternative hosting. Also on his way out he wrote some very negative posts about the language.
- asdasf 13y agoHe used haskell for some startup thing he was doing, but he didn't abandon scala or lift.
- dragonwriter 13y agoI get the impression that Pollak uses whatever the task calls for -- even if its Java -- rather than being a language tribalist that is attached to one language and dumps it for another if he gets upset with the tribe of the first. Which is, really, one of the reasons he is able to provide good perspective on languages -- he uses a variety of them for real work.
- mortyseinfeld 13y agoIt was pretty much assured that someone was going to come along on this story and label David as a "defector". I'll have to disagree with a blog post story a few days ago about the maturity of the Scala community.
- frowaway001 13y ago> label David as a "defector" I'm not seeing that. Maybe you can help?