Tony Morris

If you are still in the unfortunate position of using #scala, there exists an entire support network of people to help you improve.

I’m still intrigued about your hate to Scala. It’s true that Haskell is not perfect but almost. But Scala as an alternative is not so bad… What I’m trying to say is: Man explain us please!!! :D

Many people could talk for days about this. One of the biggest issues for me is the lack of Referential Transparency. You can perform arbitrary effects (IO, mutating global state) whereever you want, and the language doesn't try to stop you. Exceptions, nulls, brittle compiler...

Yeah, that makes sense but, using the correct libraries such as cats or similar, you can reduce that cons to almost zero. As I said, Scala is not Haskell (however Haskell also has Exceptions) but I think is still better than Python or Java.. Or JavaScript!

1. cats is a copy of scalaz because of petty politicians and their gullible corporate fan club. 2. I wrote scalaz. 3. None of this works.

I'd be curious what you think of the Eta Language project

If: (a) the JVM is an asset, not a liability (b) importing Java libraries is a legitimate strength, not just marketing Then: (c) Eta is extremely valuable. Insert your own truth values for (a) and (b).

Does really make sense use Eta instead of Haskell? I mean, in Eta, Java code must be run into an specific wrapper called Java (Monad?). This obviously will complicate the interaction with legacy code so... Does Eta make sense if using Java libraries is tricky?