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I've backed the current iteration of my career on Scala and like the idea and some of the practicalities of Scalajs but it is destined to be limited to fun proj
by weego 10y ago
I've backed the current iteration of my career on Scala and like the idea and some of the practicalities of Scalajs but it is destined to be limited to fun projects. The unavoidable problem is by committing to Scalajs you are accepting that you can no longer go out and get one of any number of JavaScript contractors or staffers to come on board and develop / maintain you client code and have to always have a Scala developer for that job as well which is a magnitude of time and expense different.
The underlying notion of Scala to X ie Scala Native has lots of potential but Scalajs is more of a segue.
- JohnnyConatus 10y agoSeconded. I love Scala but when I hire for Scala devs there are so few that I just hire the smartest developer I can find with FP experience and their first task is learning Scala. If I was starting something now I'd be tempted to use TypeScript if I wanted one language on the front-end and the back-end.