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by saagarjha 2373 days ago
Scala’s type system goes far beyond simple generics.
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and thats fine in an academic setting, but please don't bring that into the real world unless you have a really good use case.
So then please don't cite Scala as an example of type parameters being not worth it.
it's working fine in the real world enterprise setting too ;)
I've seen nothing but chaos in every org thats adopted it and they all moved to java/kotlin/go, only place I've seen it successful is around Spark. Usage stats back this up