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Node: you already now JS, the ecosystem, and the idiomatic ways to do stuff. You can focus on the differences between FE/BE
Ruby: It's easy to learn, also dynamic typed, and Rails it's a very good technology to start with backend/MVC
Python: Also easy to learn, also dynamic typed. I never played with Django..
But Apple would be required by users to give an explanation for those actions.
Still, all this post is kinda nonsense because it would never happen. It's more a karma bait lol
2. No one would switch to Android just because of that.
3. Yes, lots of negative publicity. That's why 1. would never be reached.
Finally, one thing not mentioned: people would find a way to install the app without the app store. Every good hacker in the world would try to do it firstly, because every iphone user would be asking to be able to install Uber. And Apple doesn't want all bright minds trying to find flaws in their system for sure (I wouldn't at least)
I've logged, and I already have a blog on github, and everything seems not very intuitive. But the idea sure is great
The author simply states that when mixing imperative features like exceptions in a FP languages, sooner or later something is going to be broken, that wouldn't be in a pure FP language. The example given with the exceptions in a lazy value/variable is great for showing us that ! Who wouldn't forget that a Try/Catch block in a lazy val/var would be useless (because it would only throw the exception when evaluating the val/var) ?
And I agree, pure FP has a lot of benefits, the problem is that is too hard to create a real system in a pure FP approach. So we often make compromises to get things done. I use Scala everyday (and used to develop in Java) and I'm aware of that. Nevertheless, I can avoid a lot of problems comparing to Java imperative/OO approach.
I see this post more as a reminder that when using impure FP you still have to be careful about some tricky features
And which reasons would make you choose Java over Scala?
If almost no one understands the performance and reliability difference a SSD can give, and almost no one 'enforces' users to buy SSD, how is this technology become cheaper in a so fast rate?
- 7 languages in 7 weeks, as it makes you know and understand decisions about inclusion/exclusion of some language features, for instance why/when to use dynamic typed languages vs statically typed - Programming Language Pragmatics, 'the bible' for those looking for understand programming language implementation