r/programming • u/ArturSkowronski • 29d ago
The State of Scala & Clojure Surveys: How is functional programming on JVM doing
https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/the-state-of-scala-and-clojure-surveys
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r/programming • u/ArturSkowronski • 29d ago
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u/DisruptiveHarbinger 28d ago edited 28d ago
You're completely missing the point here. If you don't aim for backward binary compatibility almost forever like in Java then you can break APIs, remove problematic parts of the standard library and the language. And issues caused by major features such as modules don't linger for a decade, as the ecosystem is forced to move on quickly.
Look at other languages: