Scala does not move in the direction of more monadic IO, but rather in the direction of “direct style”, preferring continuations to monads, but without providing support for continuations out of the box.| Alexandru Nedelcu
Scala’s coding style advised to use 2 spaces of indentation, but that was before Scala 3’s optional braces, which introduces significant indentation. It’s time for an upgrade of the coding style.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
I dislike Scala 3’s significant whitespace syntax. At this point it’s safe to say that I hate it, being (IMO) an unfortunate evolution of the language.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
Java is good by modern standards, from a technical perspective, the platform having received a lot of improvements from Java 8 to 17. Unfortunately, it still stinks, and the problem is its “enterprise” culture.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
I’ve just spent over a day, going to sleep at 1:00 am, to upgrade dependencies and fix eviction warnings in the build of a Scala project.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
According to today’s announcement, Lightbend is changing Akka’s licensing to “Business Source License (BSL)”. This is not an Open Source, or a Free Software license. This is a proprietary license.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
I don’t like given, as an alternative to implicit in Scala 3. The more I try working with it, the more it annoys me; and my understanding may be superficial, but I don’t like this direction. Here’s a comparisson between given and implicit, that I hope is fair…| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
I just refactored a piece of code. I deleted 6 source code files, and rebuilt the functionality with a bunch of dirty OOP classes shoved in a single file 😱| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
