A Glimpse into the Future: Scala 6.0

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The image displays a red and black public trash receptacle, of the type often seen in parks or on city streets. It is composed of stacked red rings, with a black lid and ashtray attachment. Overlaid at the top of the image in a large, white, bold font (Impact style) is the text 'SCALA 6.0'. This meme is a blunt and derogatory commentary on the Scala programming language. By labeling a trash can with a hypothetical future version number, the creator expresses a strong negative opinion, implying that the language is, or is becoming, 'garbage'. This type of humor is common in developer 'language wars,' where programmers express tribalistic loyalty or disdain for certain technologies. For experienced engineers, it's a cynical joke about Scala's notorious complexity, steep learning curve, and sometimes-controversial design decisions, suggesting that future iterations will only worsen its perceived flaws

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I see Scala 6.0 finally achieved the ultimate expression of the single responsibility principle: one bin for all implicits

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

I see Scala 6.0 finally achieved the ultimate expression of the single responsibility principle: one bin for all implicits
Anonymous

Scala 6.0: ships with a built-in TrashCan[F[_]] so your orphaned typeclass instances finally have somewhere to live
Anonymous

After spending 3 hours debugging implicit conversions and another 2 waiting for sbt to compile, the team finally understood why Scala 6.0 shipped with built-in waste management - it's self-aware enough to know where most of its overly clever abstractions belong
Anonymous

Scala 6.0 finally addresses the community's biggest complaint: it now comes with built-in garbage collection that actually works - just throw the whole language in the bin. After years of implicit conversions, type-level gymnastics, and migration guides longer than the codebase itself, the Scala team has pivoted to a revolutionary 'zero-code' approach where the compiler simply refuses to compile anything, achieving perfect type safety through non-existence
Anonymous

Scala 6.0 ships a given Trashcan[T] - sbt clean empties it while the compiler infers where to dump your side effects
Anonymous

Scala 6.0: we went from “implicit” to “given” to “discarded” - SBT now compiles straight to /dev/null
Anonymous

Scala 6.0: Proof even garbage collection can't save it from the bin
@PatiHox 5y

Wow, didn't that scala 6.0 looks exactly like a trash bin like those we have in out city
@gammapopolam 5y

skala (рок) (hey admin so umm im not russian do not block me please)
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  no worries
2. @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  So what Yeltsin doing there in your profile? kekw
  
  @gammapopolam 5y
  
  he is just relaxin
3. @gdfngue4ui3 5y
  
  Ahahaha, I look your profile pictures, and you "really dont russian" (im too)
  
  @gammapopolam 5y
  
  HErP
  
  @gdfngue4ui3 5y
  
  HErPbl
  
  @pavloalpha 5y
  
  Yeah, I hate niggers
@nuntikov 5y

New Scala is cool
@sylfn 5y

thats not first time
@percnt 5y

ya tozhe
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  you too
  
  @percnt 5y
  
  ok
@RiedleroD 5y

English please
1. @gdfngue4ui3 5y
  
  It was just joke in russian
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  if it's untranslatable, just say so.
  
  @gdfngue4ui3 5y
  
  It was translit (idk was this word in english or not, but it when you write russian letters in english
  
  @sylfn 5y
  
  Russian in Latin script
  
  @gdfngue4ui3 5y
  
  Yes
  
  @sylfn 5y
  
  https://t.me/devs_chat/21715 As long as translation to English is present, you can talk in any language you want
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  yes
2. @pavloalpha 5y
  
  Russian please

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