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Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 We're Doing It All Wrong by Paul Phillips

Confreaks · 64.6K views · 2013-10-25 · 50:43

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Paul Phillips, a former Scala core contributor, argues after moving a million lines of code that much of what the software industry does is wrong. He critiques Scala and compiler design and calls for better approaches.

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Cited as an insider's critique of Scala and of non-incremental compilers, often by people warning others off Scala.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2013–2020

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mietek · 2015-05 · Recommendation

5 years ago, Paul Phillips was still a core contributor to Scala. Anyone seriously considering Scala should listen to his talk, titled “We’re doing it all wrong”, and take a look at Policy, his fork of the Scala compiler. [VIDEO] [LINK] Previous discussion: [LINK]

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arkadiyt · 2015-05 · Recommendation

If you enjoy these types of compiler videos then I would highly recommend the following rants against Scala by Paul Phillips (from TypeSafe and one of the core language contributors). He also talks about wanting to edit abstract syntax trees directly: [VIDEO] [LINK]

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pas · 2020-08 · Reference

A bit tangential, but - an ex-Scala core contributor's lament about why compilers have to be incremental: [VIDEO] - a Rust core team member talking about responsive compilers: [LINK] (basically the "low-level" implementation of the talk at the previous link)

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