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From First Principles: Why Scala? > Hard to win technical arguments with Scala geniuses that like using complicated language features.
I was on a team building good old crud apps using monads, monoids, categories, combinators, effects cats, seamless and bunch of other nonsense that i've now purged from my brain.
You could've easily mistaken our team for a programming language research group at a university.
This is literally the number one reason i would never choose scala. There is no upper bound to amount of stupidity one can indulge in. Our code was so convoluted that even intellij had trouble understanding what the hell was going on and would spit out compilation errors when there were none.
I now work with clojure team and i feel a sense of relief and weight taken off of my head from all the useless stuff i had to learn and use.
dominotw,
16 hours ago
