joostdevries

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by joostdevries 12y ago
Devoting energy solely to building a good impression with your boss is a high risk strategy when bosses and companies aren't very loyal. Building an outside reputation as well using work on open source f.i. hedges that risk and increas
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by joostdevries 13y ago
I just can't imagine going back to Java. The cumbersome object definitions. The endless type declarations. The lack of case classes (algebraic types). The lack of pattern matching. The lack of named arguments. The difficulty in creatin
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by joostdevries 13y ago
That's true. But it's my impression that the terminology used in Haskell in discussing types of functions is different enough to require some study. A Haskell to Scala translation of terminology would be what I'd have to devi
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by joostdevries 13y ago
I'm going through their FP in Scala book right now. So I'm focusing on pure Scala for the moment. But I'll be definitely learning enough Haskell to be able to read papers and such. Since most of the literature on how to do F
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by joostdevries 13y ago
I was wondering about the persistent negativity about Scala since it runs counter to my own very positive experiences with Scala and Play. For me it hits just the sweet spot between monadic goodness and getting stuff done in the JVM eco sys
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by joostdevries 13y ago
Cool: apparently it works with Heroko buildpacks. So I can deploy Play framework apps as well with the Heroku buildpack for Play.
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by joostdevries 13y ago
I found out that a build I was doing was utilising http://imgur.com/U70Rcrz . I don't see that very often. Personally I find that kind of parallel processing CS magic impressive. Similarly I like the possibility of pro
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by joostdevries 13y ago
"Useful for getting stuff done" is a point that Erik Meijer literally has made. F.i. you find him explaining his point of view on side effects and imperative programming here. And how he progressed from "fundamentalist"
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by joostdevries 13y ago
I think I read that phrase from you before on nyc. I think it's a misleading catchprase. For me and I think most other Scala devs Scala is a statically typed FP-OO language. So Haskell doesn't do it justice because Haskells insis
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by joostdevries 13y ago
Programming languages are very much a matter of de gustibus. So I respect the writers experiences. But I have a slightly different perspective. Let me first say where I'm coming from. I like: a static typing. b support for FP and OO
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by joostdevries 13y ago
btw JS dependencies are available as maven deps now as well. Pretty handy http://www.webjars.org/
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by joostdevries 13y ago
Play 2.0+ is based on SBT as build system. SBT uses ivy and maven repos as source for dependency lookup. Maven repo's often show the SBT mantra form of a maven dependency. F.i. click on the sbt tab here http://mvnrepository.