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What motivated you to learn scala? Scala doesn't seem to get much attention nowadays.
by throwaway1492 7y ago
What motivated you to learn scala? Scala doesn't seem to get much attention nowadays.
- ergocoder 7y agoI can answer it from my perspective. Scala is a powerful language, so you can be succinct. It's static typed, so it is maintainable as the codebase grows. However, Scala is complex and difficult to learn. But overcoming that hurdle is a one-time thing. In my view, Scala shines for a small team with, at least, one scala expert. We can achieve a lot of things with speed, safety, and relatively smaller codebase (compared to when using golang or java). To give a contrast example, if you hire a lot of developers and care about perfect code quality, then golang is more appropriate.
- karma_fountain 7y agoJust curious, why do you say golang is good if you care about code quality?
- ergocoder 7y agoGolang is extremely simple. There aren't many choices in design. so it's easier to control quality.
- mgdigital 7y agoIt's funny you say that, I learned it because I believe it's in demand commercially, and is also a joy to work with. I perceive that companies using Scala would be on average better to work for (from a developer's point of view) than those using say NodeJS or PHP.
- mruts 7y agoThere’s a lot of scala teams around, especially in finance.