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by valenterry 692 days ago
There are definitely lots, I'm one of them. I use Scala, which is very powerful and imho much nicer language than golang. But the tooling and other support is slow and subpar. But I just can't go back to a brain-dead language(!) like golang because it hurts to program in such languages to me. So I hope that either golang catches up with Scala's features, or that Scala catches up with golangs tooling.

And I think there are many similar people like me.
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valyala 691 days ago
Scala is overcomplicated esoteric programming language. It is great for obfuscation contests. It is awful for production code, since Scala code lacks maintainability, readability and simplicity properties.
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valenterry 691 days ago
I guess we have different opinions. Maybe you had some bad experiences in the past? Scala 3 is very different from Scala 2 many years ago

There are few languages that are safer and easier to maintain, imho. The typesafety is superb.

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