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Scala is a pretty great language on its own. Have a look at the adoption of Scala.js. The ecosystem of Scala.js is larger than the "compile-to-js" ecosystems o
by airless_bar 10y ago
Scala is a pretty great language on its own.
Have a look at the adoption of Scala.js.
The ecosystem of Scala.js is larger than the "compile-to-js" ecosystems of "rust, Haskell, go, c++" combined.
One of main strengths of Scala is that people get things done. It's the only language of the ones you mentioned which has reasonable support across three vastly different platforms.
- duaneb 10y agoWho actually uses Scala.js, though? It still seems firmly in the hobbyist camp. > One of main strengths of Scala is that people get things done. This is also true of rust, go, c++, and arguably haskell. I don't see anything about scala that inherently makes it easier to "get things done". If anything, I've spent a good 10% of my scala development time (over hundreds if not thousands of hours) debugging library, compiler, and documentation bugs and inconsistencies. This is not good for a language where you get things done.
- sjrd 10y ago> Who actually uses Scala.js, though? It still seems firmly in the hobbyist camp. This is false. You can see a few commercial uses in "Built with Scala.js" at https://www.scala-js.org/community/ https://www.scala-js.org/community/ I have also talked to people out of a few tens of companies who have told me they were using Scala.js in production.