mikehearn
01/26/2017, 11:05 AMmk
01/26/2017, 11:07 AMmikehearn
01/26/2017, 11:08 AMmk
01/26/2017, 11:14 AMA risk with using obscure languages is that they might not stick aroundThis is a concern that came up here as well, but more so because that there was some anxiety around Kotlin not being endorsed by Google in any major way, and the chance that support might dwindle further because Google might be pushing e.g. Dart or other languages in the future
mikehearn
01/26/2017, 11:28 AMmk
01/26/2017, 11:36 AMI'm not a huge fan of library code that liberally uses untypeable unicode characters in its sourceI completely agree--fortunately, the cats authors understood that this is a major pain point for newcomers to the librarie(s) and made all the crazy squiggly arrows and Haskell style combinator symbols optional. We use cats quite heavily in our backend services, and we use none of these symbols.
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šmikehearn
01/26/2017, 11:37 AMmk
01/26/2017, 11:40 AM