https://youtu.be/raB_289NxBk it’s so werid that someone needs to justify that there should be pattern matching (though beware this has all the ills of any C++ feature ever)

Does anyone here no any gotchas/workarounds for scheduled Github Actions? I have something pretty basic that runs fine on a push but never seems to run from the schedule.

Ok. I guess I wasn’t patient enough. It eventually ran.

I figure someone might get a laugh out of this :stuck_out_tongue:

I did get a laugh out of it. However, we are trying to hire for a position that will involve Scala and if I see Java and they want to learn Scala I know we can teach them what they need to know.

I’d think you also could probably teach them if they know another similar-ish functional language (not that I can think of any that are quite like Scala :thinking_face:) but don’t know the JVM.

Sure. The only utility of knowing Java is at work we have a bunch of Java libraries that were built in the mid 2000s that do the work well and don’t need to be rewritten. We work in Scala because we prefer Scala to Java but we still have to interface with the legacy libraries, at the same time there is tons of cool stuff coming out of the Scala community every year, and we can use that too.

Similar to the issue of ancient but very optimized Fortran libraries for scientific / numeric processing.

Whoo, Fortran! I’m actually reading through the book “Modern Fortran” as my bedtime reading currently :smile:

+1 Fortran. So far I’m liking it more than I like Java.

But then, I suppose familiarity breeds contempt.

I qualify!

Clearly you didn’t attempt to do a computer science degree during a certain 10–15 year period :stuck_out_tongue:

my undergrad programming course consisted of modula, common lisp and prolog and pople were complaining that we didn’t do java anywhere

(And I did back then not appreciate common lisp as much as I should have ;))

the young whippersnapper that I was cough