Comment by extempore | Hacker News Reader

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That's right, I'm the stodgy conservative one and martin is the fearless innovator. Where is this version of the movie playing? I'd enjoy seeing it.

Your second paragraph lands somewhere between completely wrong and "not even wrong" if it is supposed to have some bearing on the matter. You don't appear to know the first thing about what I've said, what I've done, or what is really going on here.

Reflexive loyalty of this kind, unhinged from any objective reality, is what has brought us today's scalac. You should reconsider whether your having worked on the scala 2.7 eclipse plugin nearly a decade ago qualifies you to take a position on this. Then to position martin as the scrappy underdog - "let's hope he doesn't cave" - just let us know when the novel is finished, and I hope it's better than the movie.

You are right, I don't know you beyond these online interactions. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but you sound very vindictive, and I get it, you know stuff. Building and designing things is a journey, it won't be perfect unless you set your expectations low.

I didn't just work on the scala plugin, I changed scalac to be completely incremental at the AST level (better than everything being a Diff[T]), which was no easy feat (nor did it last, but it worked and became its own tech [1]). I've dug deeper into scalac front end code (Typers, namers, parsers) than most scalac devs have; I know Martin's style very well as a result.

[1] work on making scalac incremental eventually led to http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedti...

I am intimately familiar with your work on scalac, and that's all I can bring myself to say about that.

You and miles must be best friends. Its fine. Phew, really glad to be out of the Scala community at this point, it just wasn't worth it to being around those people.

Paul and I don't see eye to eye on many things, but on this we're in complete agreement.

So is life. Its great to see that you fixed the plugin and it works very well now. Congrats!

I'm just glad to be out of it. The Scala community really was becoming toxic, sleeping was hard. Hopefully you guys have all resolved your differences now and things are more harmonious.

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