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		RivieraKid on June 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Javapocalypse I experimented with Scala for a while but got turned off by 1) very slow compilation 2) complicated and unelegant syntax.

swah on June 14, 2013 [–]

Me too, mainly 1, which makes you feel the language is slow. Contrast with Go (a much simpler language, but feels modern because it compiles so cleanly).

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