Scala has been receiving much attention lately as a possible candidate to replace Java in the future. James Strachan creator of Groovy advocates in favor of Scala as James Gosling, creator of Java ...

Scala won’t discourage Java developers from continuing to use the older “imperative” model, and you certainly don’t suffer a performance hit for doing so.

Citing a need to be able to respond faster to events, and disappointment in both feature set and timeframe for Java 7, the guardian.co.uk team is using Scala rather than Java for new projects.

Here we begin a series of articles to look at Scala. Scala is a programming language that rides atop the Java virtual machine. In compiles to Java bytecode and can be packaged in Jar files. Scala and ...

Additionally, Scala and Java 8 interop has been improved for functional code, with methods that take functions easily called in each direction via lambda syntax. “The FunctionN classes in Scala ...

Socket now also scans Scala and Kotlin projects for security risks. The platform continues to grow in terms of language. The ...

The benefits of learning Scala There are other compelling reasons why a Java focused software developer should know Scala. The Java language isn’t perfect, and due to the global adoption Java has ...

Yammer, which bills itself as the “enterprise social network,” had tapped Scala, a general-purpose, statically typed language on the Java Virtual Machine, for high-performance back-end services.

Scala developers are outpacing Java developers when it comes to microservices adoption, they're embracing cloud-native more strongly, and devs from both camps think containers have enormous potential ...

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