alt Hacker NewsScala is a great language. It's a little bit disappointing that Kotlin is the JVM language that's gained so much traction instead.
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dboreham • yesterday at 10:12 PM
I've used both fairly extensively. Scala is just "too much". Kotlin is perhaps not enough, but that's better than too much.
blandflakes • yesterday at 9:55 PM
They really obliterated their momentum with how they went about Scala 3, unfortunately.
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29athrowaway • yesterday at 9:20 PM
Except when you chain many collection operations... then it breaks horribly.
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I was first a big fan of Scala, and while I still like it, I am now really into Kotlin.
I don't find it disappointing: I tend to consider that Scala was an inspiration for Kotlin. Maybe Kotlin won by being simpler, and definitely because of the tooling and community: being backed by JetBrains and Google helps.
For a long time, the tooling was very limited with Scala, which must have slowed its adoption, right?