• owen@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    This is awesome. Rust wearing full plate armor to dinner is hilarious… Also what’s up with Scala? lmao

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      8 months ago

      Well, obviously she was already in full plate armor when her friends called, so why take it out?

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      8 months ago

      I assume Scala is like a “gateway” (drug) to functional programming by way of also supporting imperative and object oriented paradigms.

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        8 months ago

        Probably more importantly, it runs on the JVM and is designed to interoperate with existing Java code. (FWIW, I actually think they made a major mistake in how they handle null Java objects, and that Kotlin did better here; but Kotlin is much newer.)