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Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 We're Doing It All Wrong by Paul Phillips
Paul Phillips, a former Scala core contributor, argues after moving a million lines of code that much of what the software industry does is wrong. He critiques Scala and compiler design and calls for better approaches.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited as an insider's critique of Scala and of non-incremental compilers, often by people warning others off Scala.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Confreaks
- Topic
- scala language critique
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 16
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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5 years ago, Paul Phillips was still a core contributor to Scala. Anyone seriously considering Scala should listen to his talk, titled “We’re doing it all wrong”, and take a look at Policy, his fork of the Scala compiler. [VIDEO] [LINK] Previous discussion: [LINK]
mietek on Hacker News · 2015-05
In What every computer science major should know (2011)If you enjoy these types of compiler videos then I would highly recommend the following rants against Scala by Paul Phillips (from TypeSafe and one of the core language contributors). He also talks about wanting to edit abstract syntax trees directly: [VIDEO] [LINK]
arkadiyt on Hacker News · 2015-05
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