This is truly fascinating, because it’s not often you see a broken library caused by open hostility to the very idea of category theory in such unambiguous prose.
At least the Java guy is upfront about it. I appreciate conservatism in my language maintainers, but when that conservatism is in service of the defense of a sprawling and ill-thought out library and a language as feeble in expressiveness as Java … well, it just serves to make C++ look attractive, and I never thought I’d say that.
This is truly fascinating, because it’s not often you see a broken library caused by open hostility to the very idea of category theory in such unambiguous prose.
At least the Java guy is upfront about it. I appreciate conservatism in my language maintainers, but when that conservatism is in service of the defense of a sprawling and ill-thought out library and a language as feeble in expressiveness as Java … well, it just serves to make C++ look attractive, and I never thought I’d say that.