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by taligent
4835 days ago
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Scala will easily dominate the JVM largely due to web use cases. When you have companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare behind it there is that air of credibility and longevity which companies look for when committing to a new technology. Plus the popularity of frameworks like Play doesn't hurt. |
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Not sure what you mean by that. The web situation on Scala is murky at best.
First, it looked like Lift was becoming the de-facto standard web framework on Scala (which doesn't mean much in comparison to web frameworks on other platforms such as Java).
Then Play switched to Scala and Typesafe decided to adopt it instead of Lift. Play 2 was (and still is) quite controversial because a lot of Play 1 users see the move to Scala as a step backward because templates take so long to compile right now.
The result is that the web landscape on Scala is heavily fragmented and while Play 2 seems to be the standard on it today, this does very little to support your point that "Scala will dominate the JVM largely due to web use cases".
Either way, Scala has been around for ten years and it still has a less than 5% mindshare on the JVM.