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by StreamBright 2102 days ago
Java is still my default language after so many years (even though through Clojure). I think Java's biggest advantage is the JVM though, if it had an ML programming language on the top without null and proper interfacing to Java packages I would never look at anything else. Just like .NET has F#.
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wk_end 2102 days ago
What's your opinion of Scala?
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StreamBright 2101 days ago
Great question, I think it is a good alternative to Java even though it is trying to do too much. Not sure it is happening because it is trying to build on the top of Java or some other reasons. Scala is still good and productive language though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wrWQcqLpo&ab_channel=Java

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non-entity 2101 days ago
No the commenter you're replying to, but I've actually looked into Scala a few times and while it has some big criticisms I don't necessarily disagree with, there we're many things I actually liked about the language. I briefly considered picking up for a side project, but ultimately went with something else that provided more relevant features and abstractions.

Sadly, in the real world, it seems that Scala is mostly relegated to the Spark world.

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