> overengineered code
False, scala is really concise.
> slow compile times
A few seconds slower on average, you mean
> worse compatibility with other JVM languages.
Its completely backwards compatible with Java.
False, scala is really concise.
> slow compile times
A few seconds slower on average, you mean
> worse compatibility with other JVM languages.
Its completely backwards compatible with Java.
- Scala has a lot of cool, but sometimes confusing features. Implicits, companion classes, apply/unapply.
- our compile times are 5-10 minutes in CI. I'm sure we can make it go faster, but it requires digging into a 500 line SBT file.
- Scala seems to encourage building tangled webs of actors with Akka. I understand the benefits of actors. I think the benefits are overstated vs threads when you need less than 10k threads or so.
If you're a good programmer who writes well engineered code, you can do that incredibly well in Scala. Good practices * Scala's power = Great productivity + really good work.
Implicits are kinda harder to use, but this is an advanced feature meant for library writers, not application programmers. Despite their power I find them much nicer to use than c++ templates. And there is nothing comparable in Kotlin, and insufficient abstraction can sometimes lead to actually more complex code than in Scala.