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by kenbot 4578 days ago
There's a lot of "seems" going around from people who haven't used the language, or dynamic-typing folk who obviously aren't going to pick a language that bets the farm on static types.

As a long-time Java dev myself, Scala is solving problems you don't even realise you have, because you don't know to look for them.

Powerful types, immutable state and FP make a world of difference for writing clear solutions, with better abstractions, less code, less bugs and less bullshit than the horrendous status quo of corporate Java development.

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> less code, less bugs and less bullshit than the horrendous status quo of corporate Java development.

It may take some getting used to syntax and design wise, but being able to code things up in 1/10 the size of other languages completely blows away the disadvantages of Scala.