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by jinst8gmi
3732 days ago
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We had very similar experiences with Scala. Java and the JVM are incredibly stable and mature but the language (even with JDK8+) is very restrictive. There's no pattern matching, no full closures, properties are based on a manual naming convention, and even the basic type inference is extremely primitive. The dynamically typed languages like Python and Ruby are fantastically expressive and flexible, but maintaining large bodies of code can be tricky and the performance can't compare to the JVM. Scala gives us the stability and performance of the JVM with great tooling (IntelliJ Scala plugin) and the language is very flexible and expressive. It takes some discipline to focus on writing highly readable Scala code but the result is totally worth the extra effort of learning the language. I'm not surprised that Scala was ranked as one of the most loved languages in the StackOverflow survey for at least the last two years, and Spark and Scala are the top paying tech skills in the US : http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech... http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech... |
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