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mikert89yesterday at 5:16 PM3 repliesview on HN

Scala is too complicated. Most scala code bases I have worked on have no enforced structure, the language allows for all sorts of unconventional programming paradigms


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Boxxedyesterday at 8:34 PM

Yeah I love it when people start defining their own operators all over the place and give them all inscrutable names. "Dude just use the eggplant parm operator: <<=-=>>"

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packetlostyesterday at 6:37 PM

That's sorta the curse of Lisps too.

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frakt0x90yesterday at 6:39 PM

This is exactly what turned me off. It supports so many paradigms that every line of code I wrote I had to sit and think if I was doing it the "right" way and it was miserable.

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