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Scala is hardly some obscure bespoke language. It's a top-20, maybe top-10 programming language, that's been around for 20+ years (and had far fewer breaking ch
by lmm 2y ago
Scala is hardly some obscure bespoke language. It's a top-20, maybe top-10 programming language, that's been around for 20+ years (and had far fewer breaking changes than Python over that time). Most Python translates directly into Scala, but with the benefit of a proper sound type system and full IDE support. And it's a great language for data munging.
- bdangubic 2y agothis “top 10” your LLM hallucinating? :)
- makeitdouble 2y agoThe claim sounded outlandish, but Scala looks indeed to be around the top 10~20 languages in hiring for instance: https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-programming-languages/ https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog... Scala is only in 0.5% of the scanned job offerings, and is far far behind the major languages in numbers, but I was surprised there's more demand than Rust or even Perl to be honest.
- iforgot22 2y agoI'm not surprised it's above Rust and Perl, but it's below Dart?! Ouch.
- camdenreslink 2y agoMight as well just list it as Flutter (Dart).