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groundzeros2015last Sunday at 8:34 PM1 replyview on HN

That doesn’t follow. Scala is a high level language and compiler above the JVM. The bug here is a high level one:

> Turns out there was indeed a subtle bug making chained evaluations inefficient in Scala 3

I’m comparing with Haskell, Scheme, or even SQl which all promise to compile efficient code from high level descriptions.


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blandflakeslast Sunday at 11:32 PM

The bug in TFA is hardly a reason that Scala is not a success, though.

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