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by gaius 4082 days ago
I think it's because they went into it for the wrong reasons. If you jump into a language because it is the latest fashion, and not for solid engineering reasons, then it will be an uphill struggle to reach your goals.

I have only dabbled in Scala myself, kicked the tyres as it were. My question was, is this an Ocaml or Haskell with good interop with the Java ecosystem? The answer is no but I don't hate Scala for it, I just moved on. But many folks would have persisted and tried to make it into something it's not and gotten miserable in the process.
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logicchains 4082 days ago
There's actually a port of OCaml to the JVM that has pretty good interop with the Java ecosystem, or at least it will once it's out of beta: http://www.ocamljava.org/.
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gaius 4082 days ago
Looking back at my blog, this was in 2011. I am not doing much OCaml these days either, actually.
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