I do remember watching a LC'16 30 min session on the *herculean* efforts taken to take Scala to... almost Haskell Prelude.
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I emphasize "almost". There were still some deficiencies that you'd really feel in anything past "Hello, World" projects.
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yep, unbelievably massive effort for something still not quite right, every time.
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I mean. Tech debt is a thing. Run Prelude.head [] But you all seem to be talking about this on a systemic level.
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What. Is that.
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Correct. That's what it is.
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1 - I presume that's scala 2 - Good on them for returning a Maybe 3 - Why isn't the 's' in a context of some sort? f s? [s] ?
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It's pure Haskell. There is no useful way to write that in Scala.
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Oh come on, you can do that in C++ without even reaching for macros.
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Good luck (you will fail).
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Maybe in Scala and C++ -- sure. Lens.... well...
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You won't achieve the usefulness of lens in Scala and C++. The absence of lens directly implies that you may as well stay in bed.
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