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by century19 3397 days ago
This isn't correct. There are lots of large, very popular open source projects written in Scala: Spark, Kafka, Akka, Mesos, ...

Apache Spark supports 4 languages: Scala, Java, Python and R. Most Spark applications are written in Scala.
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yellowapple 3397 days ago
I think Akka would prove the GP's point. :)
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century19 3397 days ago
Why? I assume you are making a joke that Akka is overly complex or?

Akka is clearly a very successful project, being used widely for very high volume systems. Apache Spark removed Akka because so many users were having version compatibility issues between the version of Akka they were using and Spark was using. Enough people want to use both in the same application that the Spark guys rebuilt Spark without Akka.

I might agree with you regarding Akka Streams ;-)

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allengeorge 3397 days ago
Out of curiosity - which large projects are actually using Akka?
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alextheparrot 3397 days ago
You may find the following page helpful: https://www.lightbend.com/resources/case-studies-and-stories
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rad_gruchalski 3397 days ago
On top of my head: Play Framework, Spray and Spark Notebook (http://spark-notebook.io/).
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