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Can you elaborate more on Swift vs Scala? What are the strong and weak sides of each language?
by riyadparvez 10y ago
Can you elaborate more on Swift vs Scala? What are the strong and weak sides of each language?
- jaegerpicker 10y agoVery similar languages IMO. Scala is a little heavier on the functional and academic fronts. It's syntax is also much heavier on symbols. In general I think scala has a steeper learning curve. I like scala though. Similar ideas at their core, a mixed paradigm approach. Similar also in that both have a legacy language that they need to interop with. That legacy also bleeds through to both pretty heavily. I also much prefer a native ecosystem vs the jvm. The one big area that separates the languages is tooling. I personally think Swift's tooling is much better. Faster compilation, faster runtime, faster startup, and better ide tooling.
- austinz 10y agoScala tries a lot harder than Swift to unify object-oriented and functional programming principles. For example, in Scala operators are (IIRC) implemented as methods on objects, there's a 'Nothing' bottom type that is used for covariant generic parameterization, and ADTs are implemented using inheritance in the form of case classes. Swift has no top-level object type or bottom type, and a lot of its more functional style features (ADTs in the form of 'enums', value types that enforce immutability) are completely divorced from the object-oriented part of the language.