zak_mc_kracken

> Did Scala just start winning before Kotlin was around?

Scala has about 2% mind share on the JVM after ten years in existence, I would say that not only is it not winning but its time has passed.

Ceylon is one year old, Kotlin is not even out yet, there is plenty of time for either of these two to gain some solid mind share.

Or maybe not. Maybe Java is going to reign supreme for quite a while. Whatever the replacement of Java will eventually be, I'm pretty sure it won't be Scala.

It's called humor. You should get some.

Probably that Scala is extremely verbose and boiler platey compared to Haskell as soon as you start playing with higher kinds.

And when you use just regular Scala syntax, it's just pretty ugly code overall IMO (and one of the slowest compilers of the 21st century too).

tl;dr: America sucks for work when you don't have a college degree.

Too bad OP doesn't realize that this applies outside of America too.

Fair enough.

> You don't want to force them into signing anything,

Actually, you do. The more you give the employee a chance to mull over the whole thing, the more likely they are to lawyer up and hit you with a wrongful termination lawsuit. As the employer, I'd go one step further and if the CFO has allowed for a severance package of n dollars, I would initially offer them 90% of n if they sign right away and if they don't, give them the full n. Anything to get things settled right here, right now, in the room.

> Friday is the worst

Worst for the employee being laid off, best for the company doing the lay off.

Reddit recently used that approach to announce Ellen Pao's "resignation".

Your advice is very humane and sensitive but it's definitely siding with the employees and not the employer. If you're an executive at that company in charge of doing the lay off, this is terrible advice.

Not trying to be heartless here, just trying to point out that there are two sides to all stories, including tragic ones.

> This whole thing was really disgusting and made me hate the average Reddit user

They are not the average Reddit user.

Probably a huge majority of Reddit users have no idea who Ellen Pao is.

Kickstart 1.3? What year is this, 1988?

At least use a Kickstart 3.0.

All Java IDE's have offered an interactive shell for years so there is little need for a REPL. It's just a nice thing to have but nothing more.

All IDE's do. Please stay away from BlueJ, its compiler is terrible.

> for the simple reason that Java is designed to be mainstream,

Not really. Java was designed to be practical, and it ended up being mainstream.

Most languages want to become mainstream (including Scala), most of them just fail to achieve that goal for a variety of reasons, often due to their design decisions (but not always).

Play Kerbal Space Program with them, nothing will teach them about failure to launch more than that :)

> That doesn't mean other people can't use Haskell to build web applications.

Very few companies do, though, so OP's point still stands.

This article would be a much better ad for Haskell if it weren't written by one of GHC's main author. The article also casts doubt on whether Haskell was picked because it's the best tool for the job or because of the team's familiarity with it.