"Here is a revolutionary new thing that does everything better."
"No it doesn't, because it's not exactly like the thing that I am used to. In fact, it doesn't have solutions for the limitations it eliminates! Poor."
I heard the same arguments when, for example, SolidWorks with its true construcive solid geometry (CSG) 3D modelling swept away the old 2D "electronic paper" tools such as AutoCAD. The old guys complained in exactly the same way.
"What if I just want to draw the outline by hand? SolidWorks is terrible at that!".
"Umm... it can draw arbitrary cross-sections automatically in seconds!"
"Yes, but I can't control things the way that I'm used to!"
PS is a far cry from Ammonite (a Scala-based scripting package/environment/thing, with an easy deployment one-liner, easy access to allll of the Java ecosystem packages, compile time type checks, and so on)
Passing objects by default is a nice idea to enhance pipes... but how about going beyond pipes? :)
"No it doesn't, because it's not exactly like the thing that I am used to. In fact, it doesn't have solutions for the limitations it eliminates! Poor."
I heard the same arguments when, for example, SolidWorks with its true construcive solid geometry (CSG) 3D modelling swept away the old 2D "electronic paper" tools such as AutoCAD. The old guys complained in exactly the same way.
"What if I just want to draw the outline by hand? SolidWorks is terrible at that!".
"Umm... it can draw arbitrary cross-sections automatically in seconds!"
"Yes, but I can't control things the way that I'm used to!"
Etc...