Nikita

This particular medley of fury and nausea is difficult to describe, but I will attempt to do so: I will never again write a line of @scala_lang. The language is, as far as I am concerned, thoroughly and irrevocably damned. Odersky et al. have presided over a travesty and now seem to be glancing about the corners of the room, absentmindedly forking their caprese, waiting for this disruption to blow over. But nothing will be blowing over— The winds will still over Scala's sad isthmus; perpetual home to the tribes of petty functor fanciers who ceaselessly and ouroborically stab the back of the man stabbing his own—caught in the throes of some Promethean curse for stealing categories from the gods of Haskell. Daniela Sfregola, Eugene Yokota, Seth Tisue, Lars Hupel, Rob Norris, Heather Miller, Daniel Spiewak, Michael Pilquist, and Travis Brown, all current or former members of @scala_lang or @typelevel leadership, have their names immortalized upon the open letter which cast Jon Pretty into immiseration and hopelessness, and would have very possibly k*lled a man of different mettle. As is made sickeningly and heartbreakingly manifest through Mr. Pretty's publications, they sought no trial, no evidence, no discussion. They convinced themselves by some super-evidentiary means that they held the right to extinguish a man, this former friend and colleague of theirs. And they were going to gleefully exercise that right, knowing that their sudden and tsunamic indictment would facilely engulf any hastily constructed rebuttal. The beauty and academic rigor of the language has long been counterweighted by the sanguinary, near cannibalistic nature of its inhabitants. By the time I'd made landfall in early 2019, it felt palpably post-apocalyptic. I swiftly found myself blocked and blacklisted by certain sects for naively stating my interest in what was, unbeknownst to me, the wrong open-source project. It took years to understand the involuted, overlapping, and Hatfield-McCoy-Damas-esque blood feuds that rival the complexity of the language itself (@hmemcpy is a great historian in this regard). Unfortunately, I have little leverage. By dint of the aforementioned hostilities, by inadvertently casting my lot with the wrong effect system, I was never welcomed by the signatories—in fact, under different circumstances, I might have one day found myself on their chopping block. So all I can say is this: If Jon's delayed self-defense is not acknowledged by the same Scala Center members and official accounts that so eagerly published and amplified the original, unsubstantiated claims, then I will be deleting all of my Scala open source from the internet. It's not much, but it's all I've got. I prefer to post tutorials and other silly things, but this is simply too serious. And thus, once more, I had to channel my incandescence into a steaming pile of text. Thanks for reading. 🫡