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Keynote: The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War - John A. De Goes
John A. De Goes's Scalapeno keynote argues that Scala's popularity is declining because of compile times, complexity and compatibility problems. He proposes a path for Scala to survive, including a simplified functional subset.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in Scala and language-marketing discussions for its accurate account of Scala's pain points and its argument that a language's pitch must address a real developer pain.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Scalapeño
- Topic
- scala language future
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
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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Scala is interesting language, but I wish it had tighter focus. John De Goes describes pain points quite accurately in Scalapeno keynote: [VIDEO]
metalrain on Hacker News · 2018-07
In Lisp and Haskell (2017)There are certainly folks that argue the language it too big. Here's a great talk arguing that a lot of language features should be eliminated and Scala should be made a functional programming language: [VIDEO] I'm personally in the camp of "keep Scala huge and …
MrPowers on Hacker News · 2021-03
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