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by jducoeur 3943 days ago
My product is completely built on it. Took some ramp-up and rearchitecture time (in particular, SJS is better for a single-page-application than lots of little webpages), but it has enormously increased my productivity since then.

By now, I'm at the point where adding a whole new API and making use of it in the client can be done in minutes -- having Scala end-to-end is a huge win. And having static type checking for the client code means that there are far fewer bugs, so coding the client itself is much quicker and less frustrating. Really, it's the first time in 20+ years that I've enjoyed web programming.

That's just a tiny startup (https://www.querki.net/help/#What-is-Querki -- note that everything you see there is Scala.js), but I don't think it would have been possible without SJS...

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Is there anywhere you have felt that you have to work around anything compared to writing it in javascript ? ie. it pans out great when the project is small but when it grows more and more caveats turns up and the gain maid in the start is quickly lost