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by binary132 221 days ago
I’m having a hard time envisioning a project that could be killed by choosing Scala that wasn’t actually killed by bad engineering. Scala is pretty easy to write Just Simpler Java in….
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JuniperMesos 220 days ago
I would say that Scala is more complicated than Java because it introduces a number of useful new features to a JVM language.
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cozzyd 220 days ago
Perhaps it's running on a semi-embedded system...
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xwolfi 221 days ago
The fact that it's simpler Java makes it a good candidate for failure: it tries to remove from the code enough to make it hard to maintain.
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