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by hamandcheese 2053 days ago
Medium company (low hundreds of devs). My team is starting some new projects in Scala, which will be the first Scala at the company.

So far it’s going okay. But I personally am surprised at how disinterested most folks are in learning anything new.
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LandR 2053 days ago
> am surprised at how disinterested most folks are in learning anything new.

same here, we don't do Scala but it's basically impossible to get people here to learn something new. Introducing a new language (like Scala,F# etc) would be impossible.

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zaphirplane 2053 days ago
Why did your team choose Scala , assuming you are bound to the jvm what sold Scala over kotlin or Java.
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hamandcheese 2051 days ago
The tl;dr is we had absolutely no good business reason to choose Scala, and very few technical reasons. It is mostly a developer happiness gamble.

A secret ulterior motive of mine was that Scala has bad support for Spring. Every other Java service at the company uses Spring, and I abhor it, so if I can drive adoption of Scala on my team then we can avoid Spring and also provide pressure to make all our shared JVM libs Spring-agnostic (which I believe is a good move in general).

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