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0 pointsgrumpyprole4y ago0 comments

> This is misleading at best. It was designed to show that the distinction between OOP and FP is arbitrary,

Possibly misleading yes, it is certainly a subjective point. I guess it reflects the struggle I had doing FP in Scala versus alternatives. I don't think I'm alone either, the Haskell community contains a lot of Scala refugees. Note that I have not looked at Scala 3.

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sideeffffect4y ago

> doing FP in Scala versus alternatives

I think Scala is the language most actual functional programming on this planet takes place these days. Be it just FP or pure FP.

I especially like pure FP in Scala. One can do that with Cats Effect (from the TypeLevel family of languages) or ZIO. They're both awesome, so check them out and pick what you'll like best.

https://typelevel.org/cats-effect/

https://zio.dev/

You don't even need to reach out to Scala 3 (still not as mature in its tooling support), you can have a great time with the latest Scala 2 (2.13).

> versus alternatives

I think of Scala as a opinionated take on ML and a module system that is tailored to JVM (and is seamlessly interoperable with Java) that just happens to have syntax heavy on braces/parentheses. Otherwise, what's not to like? :)

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