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Scala 3 slowed us down?

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261 points kmaliszewski | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 15:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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hunterpayne ◴[07 Dec 25 21:29 UTC] No.46185337[source]▶
The problem with Scala 3 is that nobody asked for it. The problem with Scala 2 is that the type inference part of the compiler is still broken. Nobody worked on that. Instead they changed the language in ways that don't address complaints. Completely ignore the market and deliver a product nobody wants. That's what happened here.

PS Perhaps they should make an actual unit test suite for their compiler. Instead they have a couple of dozen tests and have to guess if their compiler PR will break things.

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1. vletal ◴[08 Dec 25 09:15 UTC] No.46190120[source]▶
I was so stoked, when it was released. Loved the approach they take. So, I can say, there was at least one person who asked for it.

With the hindsight, it is not a great mainstream language and the new opinionated language is too hard for junior Joe developers.

Anyway, you clearly have not read the article, as it is about bug in a transitive dependency, not an actual Scala 3 issue.

p.s.: Scala compiler is one of the most aggressively tested pieces of software in the JVM ecosystem.