It depends on your needs. Scala has some advantages over Python when you want high performance, or if you want to build large programs, or if you're interested

It depends on your needs. Scala has some advantages over Python when you want high performance, or if you want to build large programs, or if you're interested in building principled or robust programs using functional programming. Netflix machine learning seem to be leaning towards using both Python and Scala together to take advantage of both. See this project: https://netflixtechblog.com/open-sourcing-polynote-an-ide-inspired-polyglot-notebook-7f929d3f447 https://netflixtechblog.com/open-sourcing-polynote-an-ide-in...