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Some would say Scala is not a "web language" either, but I think Play Framework developers would disagree. The rules of the game are not as clear as they used t
by neverminder 11y ago
Some would say Scala is not a "web language" either, but I think Play Framework developers would disagree. The rules of the game are not as clear as they used to be. For instance - web frontend is being dominated by JS frameworks and all the backend does is handling REST calls. I would argue that when you need scalability/performance/reliability, when milliseconds start to count - static languages make very much sense and when Rust can offer a comparable performance with C - it looks a very appealing option.
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- ghayes 11y agoThis may miss your point, but I would easily argue that Scala is a "web language," just as Java is and was before it. Scala's focus on concurrency helps drive this point, as it's not response time so much as throughout given IO constraints that make a good environment for web applications.
- cgag 11y agoYeah, I don't really think people would argue scala doesn't make sense for web dev. I think the main is that webdev can generally tolerate GC and it's not worth giving it up.