It's not like there are many skilled programmers at all, functional programming talk is pretty recent, 10 years ago the cloud did not exist and lambdas were "PhD stuff"
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Replying to @Kaboom20264259 @tomzalt and
All the skilled programmers were around back then. Where are they now? Why aren't they using Scala? You don't even know they existed :)
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Some of them went to elixir, most of them to haskell (the famous haskellator). I don't know about anyone who went to go
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Replying to @Kaboom20264259 @tomzalt and
Almost all the decent Scala programmers were using Haskell, before Scala, and are no longer using Scala. That's because it's a waste of fucking time.
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Replying to @dibblego @Kaboom20264259 and
Why did anyone bother with Scala?
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the JVM, probably
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Replying to @Kaboom20264259 @tomzalt and
Well, yeah, that's why we thought it had merit. 1. This is a better language than Java. 2. We should be able to help make this an even better language (for the JVM). Neither of these turned out to be true.
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Replying to @tomzalt @Kaboom20264259 and
Kicks arse. It is on our team's radar as a project to which we may commit resources.
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Replying to @dibblego @Kaboom20264259 and
From all this conversation I gather: - Haskell is the superior language - JVM is a good conduit to get industry to adopt a language - Hopes put into Scala to get Haskell ideas into industry through JVM - Haskell on the JVM (eta) is a better choice. Do you agree?
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I agree. I also think it is unique that for Scala, you do not know immediately just how fucked you are. It takes time. This is unlike, say PHP or golang, where you know immediately that you're totally busted out of the gate.
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