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Had to add this because I thought it was fairly obvious, but all the other Scala mentions were either snarky or seemed to miss the core point of the title of th
by vijucat 13y ago
Had to add this because I thought it was fairly obvious, but all the other Scala mentions were either snarky or seemed to miss the core point of the title of the post : "What languages fix"
Scala : functional programming without leaving the JVM
Because enterprises have spent a decade or so building up JVM expertise in the form of Java.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoScala is much more than a functional language, its more like Java done much better, not all of its useful features are functional. Maybe you meant clojure?
- vijucat 13y agoYou're right! It's not AS simple as I made it out to be.
- rbehrends 13y agoScala is really a multi-paradigm language, and that is arguably one of its major selling points. While you can use it exclusively for functional programming if you wish, object-oriented and imperative programming are equal citizens.