> I'm a regular HN reader, yet I've never heard of half of these Scala, Akka, TypeScript, React...uh, where have you been? Lichess is an impressive project, t

> I'm a regular HN reader, yet I've never heard of half of these Scala, Akka, TypeScript, React...uh, where have you been? Lichess is an impressive project, their chess app is not only excellent compared to everything else out there, it's incredibly efficient, and handles a ton of traffic with ease. I don't think the creators chose the stack without reason.