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Scala seems to be chugging along. Twitter still uses it heavily. I recently watched a few Scala Days 2019 videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOHg8YCiyM
by melling 7y ago
Scala seems to be chugging along.
Twitter still uses it heavily.
I recently watched a few Scala Days 2019 videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOHg8YCiyMVRRxb3mJT_0Mg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOHg8YCiyMVRRxb3mJT_0Mg
It seems to have a healthy community. 3.0 comes out next year.
If you want a functional gateway drug, Scala appears to be the answer:
https://typelevel.org/cats/ https://typelevel.org/cats/
- threeseed 7y agoIf you really want to see the future of Scala look at ZIO (http://zio.dev http://zio.dev) By far the most interesting library I've seen on any platform in decades. It handles the most complex concurrency issues with ease. In my current project is has meant an order of magnitude less code to write. And the way you explicitly have to list what your function returns under every situation e.g. success and error is a real improvement in how Java/Scala works e.g. https://zio.dev/docs/datatypes/datatypes_io https://zio.dev/docs/datatypes/datatypes_io And for web developer look at Slinky one of the nicest React implementations on any platform (https://slinky.dev https://slinky.dev)
- pjmlp 7y agoHeather Miller's recent talk at JuliaConf kind of pointed out a couple of issues.