FFS if I read yet another article bringing up cats vs scalaz as relevant to Scala today, I'm gonna keep my cool and ignore it with prejudice, just like I did this one.
If you have so little awareness of the Scala ecosystem that you don't realize how laughable such a remark is in 2022, yet allow yourself to have such a strong opinion on the language, I have less than zero interest in the rest of your opinions about "weird languages".
> I'm gonna keep my cool and ignore it with prejudice, just like I did this one.
Just gonna point out you didn't keep your cool and ignore it.
Keeping your cool: good!
Ignoring it: no way!
You obviously have a lot of passion for the topic, and may have rightly identified a flaw in the author's blog post. You can use that passion - and keeping your cool - to correct the record.
e.g. I dunno OP is wrong and Scala is not a mess, it is awesome! That culture war was resolved in favor of cats years ago, and here's why...
I feel like you're the kind of commenter the author is advising against taking advice from. Someone learning Scala presumably cares much less about gaining "awareness of the Scala ecosystem" than writing their first Scala program.
I don't know Scala though, so perhaps your argument would make more sense to me if you explained why they were so wrong.
scalaz is irrelevant to scala in 2022, cats won almost everyone over a long time ago. The author is basically raising a giant "I haven't touched Scala in years (or ever)" flag by bringing up that choice. Then proceeds to summarily dismiss Scala as "a mess". Right.
I'm tired of people who never really used Scala or haven't used it in years casually shitting on it like it's a cool thing to do. Like "Scala is a mess" is something self-obvious that doesn't even need any explanation / justification.
And Scala aside, it's pretty amazing that a blog post that can be summarized as "be a normie, being weird is expensive" is at the top of Hacker News. Such hackers we are.
If you have so little awareness of the Scala ecosystem that you don't realize how laughable such a remark is in 2022, yet allow yourself to have such a strong opinion on the language, I have less than zero interest in the rest of your opinions about "weird languages".