On May 24, 1686, Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born. He is is best known for his invention of the mercury-in-glass thermometer in 1714, and for developing a temperature scale that is now named after him.
Here at Sumo Logic we write a lot of Scala code. We also have a lot of data, so some of our code has to go really, really fast. While Scala allows us to write correct, clear code quickly, it can be challenging to ensure that you are getting the best performance possible.
He CC'ed Martin Odersky, the lead designer of Scala and Typesafe’s Chief Architect. Given that the two people best-situated to improve Scala had just asked me about my experience over the past two years of using Scala, I wrote a long, considered, brutally honest response.