Towards Scala 3
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Towards Scala 3
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#2Just curious, what companies (or kinds of companies) are betting on Scala nowadays? It seems that the people wanting "better Java" all decided they like Kotlin, and the functional programming people now gravitate more towards either F# (for .NET ecosystem) or OCaml/Reason (for the more unixy world). And the academic/research/learning crowd seems to like Haskell more.
Who's still in Scala boat? Are Google or Fb or other big cos known to give back to open-source growing any Scala codebases now?
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#3Great news! Kind of confused about scala2 and 3 sharing the same standard library. I thought that was being redesigned.
Re: Towards Scala 3
#4Just curious, what companies (or kinds of companies) are betting on Scala nowadays? It seems that the people wanting "better Java" all decided they like Kotlin, and the functional programming people now gravitate more towards either F# (for .NET ecosystem) or OCaml/Reason (for the more unixy world). And the academic/research/learning crowd seems to like Haskell more. Who's still in Scala boat? Are Google or Fb or oth…
Scala is used pretty heavily in the big data world, particularly if you are working with Spark.
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#5Its fascinating process where if you're a hot new language you attract a lot of people that like shiny new things. When the next hot new language comes along and those people move on - have you attracted enough of the secondary wave to keep alive? Its going to be interesting to watch Scala adoption in the next few years.
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#6Great news! Kind of confused about scala2 and 3 sharing the same standard library. I thought that was being redesigned.
The shared library we are talking about is the upcoming 2.13 library, which has the new collections design. We currently link against the 2.12 library but will switch to 2.13 once that comes out.
Re: Towards Scala 3
#7Just curious, what companies (or kinds of companies) are betting on Scala nowadays? It seems that the people wanting "better Java" all decided they like Kotlin, and the functional programming people now gravitate more towards either F# (for .NET ecosystem) or OCaml/Reason (for the more unixy world). And the academic/research/learning crowd seems to like Haskell more. Who's still in Scala boat? Are Google or Fb or oth…
Scala is used pretty heavily in the big data world, particularly if you are working with Spark.
Not to mention, Flink, Akka, Apache Beam (via the Scio library or the Java api).
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#8Just curious, what companies (or kinds of companies) are betting on Scala nowadays? It seems that the people wanting "better Java" all decided they like Kotlin, and the functional programming people now gravitate more towards either F# (for .NET ecosystem) or OCaml/Reason (for the more unixy world). And the academic/research/learning crowd seems to like Haskell more. Who's still in Scala boat? Are Google or Fb or oth…
I know quite a few finance companies use it - Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs come to mind.
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#9My big question (not answered in the FAQ) is will it be faster or slower than Scala 2.12? Having worked on a big Scala codebase, the slow compiler speed is one of the biggest downsides to the language.
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#10Great news! Kind of confused about scala2 and 3 sharing the same standard library. I thought that was being redesigned.
The shared library we are talking about is the upcoming 2.13 library, which has the new collections design. We currently link against the 2.12 library but will switch to 2.13 once that comes out.
Just wanted to say- thanks for your great work in making Scala possible. And wanted to add that going through your Scala Functional Programming MOOC was one of the most rewarding experiences.