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I'm curious about the motivation to use Scala for such a relatively small codebase.

• johncoltrane 12y ago
  A good enough occasion to learn the language?
  • remon 12y ago
    Not sure if "learning opportunity" should necessarily be on the priority list for a framework that apparently is intended to serve as the backbone for a lot of service development within a company the size of Tumblr ;)
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• bkirwi 12y ago
  Presumably, Tumblr also uses Scala for the services themselves... and by assuming Scala, they can make the API more idiomatic. (For me, the question runs the other way -- I need a very good reason to write a codebase in Java vs. Scala these days, although I understand not everyone feels the same.)