Scala is almost as terse as Python for data munging/wrangling tasks (unlike say C#,C++ or Java) Scala is almost as much joy to write data munging tasks as Pyth

Scala is almost as terse as Python for data munging/wrangling tasks (unlike say C#,C++ or Java) Scala is almost as much joy to write data munging tasks as Python (unlike say C#, C++, Java, and I have to say Golang). Chaining multiple maps and filters is so much more pleasurable than writing 4 nested loops with multiple ifs inside. The better part is that you can reliably deploy Scala unlike Python. We just had yet another discussion on the mess that Python deployment is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29439149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29439149