Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 4/9/2014 4:21 PM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>
> Sure, the language may be the core, and one of the most
> important aspects, but the rest of the tool-chain is extremely important
> too.
>
> I don't think everyone in the D community (and outside it too) fully
> stands behind this idea.
>

I think a big part of that is because there's been a lot of work done 
using languages where good tooling is used as a substitute for a good 
language (*cough*java*cough*) - to predictably painful results.

Tooling is certainly very important, but until someone comes up with a 
substitute for "programming languages" that actually *works well* as a 
*complete* substitute (decades of attempts, still zero successes), then 
unlike tooling, the language is still the one thing that's absolutely 
*mandatory*.