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Scala Collections: Why Not?

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Scala Collections: Why Not?

Paul Phillips, a Typesafe co-founder and prolific Scala committer, explains why he walked away from Scala. He critiques the Scala collections library and presents his own design focused on immutability, performance and correctness.

Cited in Scala-skeptic arguments as an insider's critique, and for his alternative collections API design.

6 Hacker News mentions · 2015–2020

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