I don’t like Scala. And I think it has some bad and very ugly aspects that make it a poor choice for mainstream development. But recently I still introduced it in our project. Not only that, but the team has no experience with Scala. And I’ll try to explain why that is not a bad […]
The other day I gave a talk on a tech conference about my experience with Scala. Ironically, just two weeks after I wrote that I don’t like Scala, I started working with it on a daily basis, so I now have a better overview. And it’s not all black and white, but many of my […]
Yes, it is my opinion, and yes, it might seem like a hate-post. But I’ll try to address the issues I have with Scala and its surroundings. I have used Scala in a single, relatively small project (currently working in production), so I guess I’m somewhere between “n00b” and “intermediate”. there are multiple right ways […]
As part of a project I’m working on, I needed to get documents from state institutions. And instead of writing code specific for each site, I decided to try creating a “universal” document scraper. It can be found as a separate module within the main project https://github.com/Glamdring/state-alerts/. The project is written in Scala, and can […]
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