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Scala: I love the mix of FP with OO all on the JVM with access to battle-tested Java libraries. I can also use it on the frontend with https://www.scala-js.org
by ddispaltro 10y ago
Scala: I love the mix of FP with OO all on the JVM with access to battle-tested Java libraries. I can also use it on the frontend with https://www.scala-js.org/ https://www.scala-js.org/ and potentially as a lower level system language with http://www.scala-native.org/ http://www.scala-native.org/
- vorg 10y agoIt's a pity Apache Groovy's ongoing governance problems stopped it achieving a similar goal. Groovy's still great, though, for writing quick'n'dirty scripts for testing Java classes and defining builds, and Grails still offers Groovy exclusively for scripting (though I wouldn't be surprised if Grails soon follows Gradle down the path of enabling Kotlin as a scripting language).