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0 pointsdboreham2y ago0 comments

Also speaking from experience: Scala takes much less time to learn if you have someone familiar with regular programming concepts (not FP religion) to decode it for you. But ultimately agree, it's a bad choice for pretty much any purpose.

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davedx2y ago

Mmm... depends, I guess. We had a team of JavaScript programmers and we (me included) needed to maintain the Scala back-end our client consumed, that was built by contractors a year or two previously and not really been worked on since then. It used Spray for routing, which IMO was the worst part of it, but there were a lot of other quite "cerebral" Scala-specific concepts in there too like implicits and other stuff that I forget now. A lot of it I'd never really come across before in any other programming language.

Maybe if you're familiar with something like Haskell Scala is more straightforward to decode?

ParetoOptimal2y ago

> Maybe if you're familiar with something like Haskell Scala is more straightforward to decode?

Only if it's a particular flavor of Scala I think. Even then there's so much "excess" added by Haskell-esque Scala you'll have to develop the skill of mapping from one to another.

A simple but realtively easy example is sum types in Haskell are case classes in Scala.

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