The warped idea that a big advantage of Scala is h...
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happy-kitchen-89482
03/29/2018, 9:52 PMThe warped idea that a big advantage of Scala is how easy it is to create DSLs is like saying “the best thing about a newborn baby is that they crap themselves and throw up on you”
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aloof-angle-91616
03/29/2018, 9:53 PMi agree with this statement
aloof-angle-91616
03/29/2018, 9:54 PMmore as a statement about the kinds of DSLs people do write than DSLs that people could write imo
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happy-kitchen-89482
03/29/2018, 10:11 PMSeveral years ago we hosted a Scala meetup at 4sq, and the guy who wrote the build language for SBT gave a talk on it, saying he knows that DSLs get a bad rep, but he thinks SBT is DSLs done right. Then he showed a table of the 8 most useful SBT build operators, all of which look like indistinguishable fallen christmas trees:
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aloof-angle-91616
03/29/2018, 10:12 PMnow that's funny
aloof-angle-91616
03/29/2018, 10:12 PMsbt almost turned me off to scala and i will never forgive it for that
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happy-kitchen-89482
03/29/2018, 10:14 PMScala turned me off Scala… but that’s a separate conversation.
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