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The downvotes reflect the truth of the above statement...

• saryant 12y ago
  I was one of those downvotes. I did so because I felt that your comment was just inviting unnecessary drama into a discussion by stoking language flamewars. I'm not anti-Scala—I develop in it every day and think it's a great language. But bashing a strawman like that isn't going to win anyone over.
  • virtualwhys 12y ago
    Fair enough, I felt like bringing up the issue, and I did. What better place to do so than a mildly news worthy point release announcement? That it's survived on the HN front page this long is a complete shock to be honest. re: language flamewars, interesting, perhaps you've noticed some of the FP heavies laying into Scala here on HN, Reddit and Twitter. I'd say the flaming by an overwhelming majority is coming from the other side of the fence.
    • Pacabel 12y ago
      Don't worry about downvotes here. They aren't indicative of the quality or value of a comment any longer. The whole "downvote if you disagree" concept just encourages the disconnect even more. These days, it's best just to read all of the comments, including any that have been grayed out. A lot of the time they're perfectly legitimate. It's just unfortunate that they're harder to read.
      • virtualwhys 12y ago
        Hah, little overnight attack caught you and me both ;-) I agree, sometimes heavily downvoted comments reflect the truth of things more than those comments that are upvoted via, say, sycophantic pandering. A nice HN addition would be to toggle comment color; that way one could view greyed out comments in isolation relative to upvoted comments and vice-versa.