AFAIK it’s an excellent language let down by political in-fighting in the ecosystem and subsequent fragmentation of is otherwise ‘standard’ libraries. IMO this kills the language.
Kotlin offers most of what Scala does with a much more solid and supportive ecosystem, it’s the obvious winner in the ecological niche of ‘better JVM languages’, for me.
Funny; I joined Lemmy today in hopes of a slightly higher standard of discourse than the last platform. But, I have to admit, that’s very accurate… well done.
Even in current circumstances; your average Joe could perhaps pass the suggestion off as some kind of sardonic humour… but actually being the US Ambassador to Iceland and saying it? That’s either a brain-dead lack of self-awareness, a thinly veiled ‘flex’ to your Republican peers or, of course, both.
This is really interesting, appreciate your taking the time to share, thanks 👍 Now I have a fresh experiment for all those ESP32’s in my drawers 😁
Wonder how much solar power it would take to run one of these nodes, it’s be fun to guerrilla a few across town to create a bit of uh…civic infrastructure.