▲ 10 ▼ Moving a team from Scala to Golang

126kr.com posted by kenny 2641 days ago

The story of moving from Scala to Go at CrowdStrike, from the lead engineer who introduced Scala.

▲ kenny 2641 days ago ▼

I particularly liked this bit from the article about the two camps of Scala developers:

Scala is a powerful language, it comes from academic roots and gives enough flexibility that you can easily start writing “write-once” type code. Scala developers typically travel down two paths: You have the “it’s a better java ” camp you have the “I (heart) Applicative Functors” camp.

I tried Scala out a while back for the Stripe CTF, but didn't get very far because of the compile times and the obtuse syntax (for someone used to imperative languages). It took 180 seconds just to compile a very simple program on a server because of the dependencies. The equivalent in go compiled in under a second, which meant it was much easier to experiment with.

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▲ tomf 2640 days ago ▼

It can be really elegant and concise though.

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