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		valyala on Aug 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead Scala is overcomplicated esoteric programming language. It is great for obfuscation contests. It is awful for production code, since Scala code lacks maintainability, readability and simplicity properties.

valenterry on Aug 3, 2024 [–]

I guess we have different opinions. Maybe you had some bad experiences in the past? Scala 3 is very different from Scala 2 many years ago

There are few languages that are safer and easier to maintain, imho. The typesafety is superb.

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