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by Zababa
1723 days ago
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> - The language veers towards a C++ style "I will have every PL feature." Sometimes less is more Do you still feel that way with Scala 3? From what I understood, the work on the DOT calculus helped reduce and simplify the core of the language. |
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Unfortunately I don't know much more about this other than "this is a Good Thing" and has helped/will help with dealing with edge cases in the language and the compiler, better type inference etc.
But Scala 3 still is overwhelmingly compatible with Scala 2.x (which is a required because of the tons of legacy code out there). Given that Scala 3 continues to be essentially the same language as Scala 2, the overall complexity of the language has not gone down very much even though the core of the language is now more consistent.
Put another way, the emergent complexity of the (tad more uniform) building blocks of Scala 3 still needs to be tackled by programmers.
I also want to point out that Scala 3 compilation speed is supposed to be faster but generally speaking the compiler is still slow-ish.
All in all, Scala 3 is more compelling than before. I may still adopt it in the future for a project. But I'm not as starry eyed about it than some others may be...