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I am unfamiliar with scala, which of it's traits makes it deserving of higher pay?

• fazfq 4y ago
  I guess the fact that it's rarer than other languages, but I have no idea.
  • texasbigdata 4y ago
    Just a guess: perhaps that it’s more applicable to large use cases and at clients that are much more likely to be profitable and therefore able to pay?
    • jon-wood 4y ago
      Scala is big in the financial sector, which means average salaries for Scala developers are going to trend higher.
• jlund-molfese 4y ago
  Functional languages seem to have a smaller talent pool and higher salaries. You can write procedural Scala, but if that’s the case, you might as well use modern Java.
• lmm 4y ago
  It's popular in finance, which pulls up the average pay.
  • agravier 4y ago
    Also in all sorts of data engineering, productionized data science, etc.