alt Hacker NewsI tried getting into Scala several times and kept going back to Clojure. Unless you are into type system minigames Clojure has many of the things Scala advertises but without the dumptruck of Scala overhead and complexity. Another commenter briefly touched on this but it's a language made by academics for academics to play with language design. It was a little weird it blew up in industry for a while.
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still_grokking • last Monday at 9:28 PM
> It was a little weird it blew up in industry for a while.
It never went away. It only got more:
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dionian • last Monday at 4:14 AM
The simplicity of closure is certainly a main part of its appeal. I’ve never done OOP in it, but I don’t think I want to. I have a lot of respect for it though.
> it's a language made by academics for academics to play with language design. It was a little weird it blew up in industry for a while.
Yep. They have always been pretty honest about this.
I think that it blew up in industry because it really was ahead of its time. Type systems were pretty uncool before Scala. It proved that you could get OO and FP in a single type system.
Actually, a big part of reason for doing Scala 3 was rebasing the language on a more rigorous basis for unifying OO and FP. They felt that for all their other big ideas, it was time to rethink the fundamentals.