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alexelcu

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Software developer, #FP, #Scala, #Kotlin, #Java / #JVM, #Haskell, #Rust; contributor to https://alexn.org, https://monix.io, https://typelevel.org.

🌍 #Bucharest, #Romania

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rodhilton, to programming
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I think it's fair to say that between the Scala 3 rollout and the lightbend licensing fiasco with Akka, #Scala is effectively dead.

Everyone I know with a Scala codebase in a professional setting is either

  1. actively transitioning away from Scala because they need to move away from akka streams

  2. maintaining existing projects but are doing no new projects in Scala

  3. trying to stick with Scala 2 until they no longer can

I don't know of anyone actively doing new dev in Scala.

alexelcu,
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@rodhilton 👋 we're building payment processors in Scala since 2020 and expanding. Using Akka Streams, too, amongst others, and waiting for Apache Pekko.

Scala 3 is nice, but Scala 2.13.x is pretty good, stable, has had more features, actually & does the job. The failure of Scala 3 to stabilize and be adopted doesn't represent a failure of Scala in general, not yet at least.

Some churn is natural. Rumors of death are greatly exaggerated since Scala ~2.8.

alexelcu,
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@rodhilton wow, an ad-hominem to go with anecdotes, how charming.

My profile may not say that I worked w/ about a dozen programming languages professionally. I was deeply invested in Python when it lost popularity to Ruby or when nobody wanted Python 3. I was a Java developer when everyone hated it, predicting its death to .NET, Ruby, JS, others.

People treat programming languages like they treat sports teams, and it's not productive, but we all have guilty pleasures 😊

malwaretech, to random

I wrote some JavaScript that prevent Twitter Blue user's tweets from ever even showing up in the timeline and can also autoblock them based on follower count.

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alexelcu,
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@andresmh @malwaretech A better solution is uBlock Origin, or any ad-blocker, but preferably one that supports cosmetic filtering. Just add this custom rule:

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