He says, after suggesting you can't trust what someone says because they are an evangelist.
>Kmett has, I believe, taken on a larger role in Haskell, perhaps officially with FP Complete
FP complete is an independent company and has no official involvement in GHC or any other haskell implementation. Edward is not involved with FP complete. Edward is involved in the haskell community and the scala community. In neither case is he anything like an evangelist (which would make no sense anyways, you can't convert the converted). It seems odd that you are so adamant about inventing a fictional promotional context for him after claiming there's nothing wrong with that.
>Referring to a presentation by Paul Phillips, an absolute Scala giant, and equating that with what the average Scala programmer encounters in their daily work does not negate my argument...in the slightest.
Perhaps you should actually take the time to listen to it. A significant part of what he was saying was "this stuff matters". Just because the person doing the presentation knows scala very well, does not mean the problems he points out do not effect people who know scala less well.
>When you leave Scala and remain on the JVM there is no better statically typed alternative, IMHO
I am not sure how that is relevant. I don't care about the JVM.
>Just getting my feet wet, maybe I'll learn to love it, but for now, to get shit done in the real world, it's Scala and the JVM.
Or this. Do you remember the part where I tried to convince you to use haskell? Neither do I.