Scala

“it also caused some real world problems like different, partly incomprehensible coding syles or compatibility issues.”

“He's happy with his research language that somehow has enough good features some companies put it in prod.”

“Scala has evolved the last several years to again become perhaps the most interesting big-ish application language”

“I would definitely trim like 20% off scala, but I think slow compile times were the main reason.”

“we wrote scala to run our queries, and once we figured out how to get our compiler and runtime set up, we liked it!”

“Scala similarly to the previous examples was a Java-like with Haskell flavor that escaped an academic lab”

“Scala does exactly that, and has libraries that e.g. propagate stack traces across fibres automatically and invisibly.”

“Migrating's been quite challenging. Tooling, which was already a challenge for the language, got worse because it was split between Scala 2 and 3.”

“have type systems expressive enough that using them to track escaping is not an absolute hassle”

“I say this as someone using Scala 3 with ZIO effects system and Mill build tool and thinks it is fantastic.”

“in the stronger languages you can reason about larger swaths about domain concepts easily”

“Clojure, Groovy and even Scala, focus primarily on being nice with Java and having a symbiotic relationship.”

“A single loop might recompile and rerun the application/unit tests enough times that slow compilers like Rust and Scala become detrimental.”

“In Scala (especially ZIO) propagation is all automatic and you just handle it wherever you'd like.”

“my experience is that if it compiles and looks like what you expect, it's almost certainly correct”

“I never had this problem with Scala (2.x for me, but I guess there's similar syntax/concepts in 3).”

“overwhelmed by typesafe abstractions that held theoretical appeal but hampered readability and fragmented the community”

“most of our engineers dislike it because the language is difficult to understand, has way too many features, and has many ways to solve the same problem”

“Still my favorite language I had the privilege to work with professionally for over a decade.”

“I've always liked Scala as a language, but it's challenging to write high-performing and memory-efficient code on the JVM in general.”

“I can't think of a single time symbolic operators were brought up as a source of complexity of confusion”

“if you try starting a new project now with the latest Scala 3, I think you'll find that its pretty nice”

“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”

“Scala is an incredible language, especially for the language being so flexible, which is a strength, not a weakness.”

“Scala's metaprogramming abilities coupled to a powerful type system are still unmatched.”

“but also fixed many warts”

“Scala is a fantastic language and in fact I'd say it's the language that proves the article wrong.”

“Kotlin or Scala in particular IMO serve better for systems where the bulk of the code is internal business logic.”

“Removing braces really makes code much easier to read for people who get distracted by useless line noise”

“The overreaching majority thinks that Scala 3 is objectively much better than Scala 2 ever was.”

“all the examples and code snippets in the official docs defaulted to the new syntax, making them infuriating to read”

“The stuff currently cooking in Scala 3 will once more revolutionize the whole programming language landscape.”

“it is not a great mainstream language and the new opinionated language is too hard for junior Joe developers”

“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.”

“Scala is a great language and I really prefer its typesafe and easy way to write powerful programs”

“The language is actually really nice. The "we won't ship dotty as the next version of Scala, just kidding, here it is", the breakage of editors and IDEs that lasted for years, etc (aka, the WAY they did it) make migrating a poor value prop.”

“Its syntax is now Python-like (indentation based), although you can also use C style if you prefer.”

“Scala supports declarative, generative, imperative, meta, and object-oriented paradigms.”

“A language that is really popular can manage having 5 ways to do things, but a small community is just going to lose steam.”

“I think they did a lot of things right. Offer automatic conversions, backwards and forwards compatibility”