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Keynote: The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War - John A. De Goes

Scalapeño · 36.4K views · 2018-07-10 · 45:03

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John A. De Goes's Scalapeno keynote argues that Scala's popularity is declining because of compile times, complexity and compatibility problems. He proposes a path for Scala to survive, including a simplified functional subset.

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Cited in Scala and language-marketing discussions for its accurate account of Scala's pain points and its argument that a language's pitch must address a real developer pain.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2021

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MrPowers · 2021-03 · Recommendation

There are certainly folks that argue the language it too big. Here's a great talk arguing that a lot of language features should be eliminated and Scala should be made a functional programming language: [VIDEO] I'm personally in the camp of "keep Scala huge and weird and multi-paradigm, but just make less breaking changes and focus all efforts on making the ecosystem more stable".

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metalrain · 2018-07 · Recommendation

Scala is interesting language, but I wish it had tighter focus. John De Goes describes pain points quite accurately in Scalapeno keynote: [VIDEO]

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MrPowers · 2021-02 · Reference

Yep, there is even a talk on the Scala Infinity War which argues for one subset version of Scala that it needs in order to survive: [VIDEO] For me, Scala is a multi-paradigm language with tons of features. The community just needs different types of style guides for different apps. vars are horrifying for the functional crowd, but cool with me for example.

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