Scala is a Maintenance Nightmare

• cats

  43 5,171 8.9 Scala

  Lightweight, modular, and extensible library for functional programming.

  

Spark is used in the examples, but these points carry over to other libs. Take cats for example. If you look at the cats README (https://github.com/typelevel/cats) there is this caveat: Cats relies on improved type inference via the fix for SI-2712, which is not enabled by default. For Scala 2.11.9+ or 2.12 you should add the following to your build.sbt: scalacOptions += "-Ypartial-unification"

• sbt

  20 4,755 9.1 Scala

  sbt, the interactive build tool

  

More cats specific stuff here: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/releases/tag/v1.5.0-RC2

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• semver

  720 7,020 2.3

  Semantic Versioning Specification

  

Any given library might or might not be. Most Scala libraries use semantic versioning and are binary backward-compatible across minor versions, but certainly not all In this respect, Scala is not significantly different from other languages.

• kotlinx.collections.immutable

  10 1,081 7.3 Kotlin

  Immutable persistent collections for Kotlin

  

I could see this argument made with Clojure, but I don't really see what makes Scala significantly better at FP than Kotlin. Kotlin has an official persistent data structures library nowadays, and it's got lambdas and higher order functions.

• geni

  4 275 5.6 Clojure

  A Clojure dataframe library that runs on Spark

  

I haven't tried Spark from Kotlin, but it's a nice experience working with it in Clojure, and I have yet to see a language more expressive than Clojure. :)

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