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Why is Scala not more popular? It seems like such an awesome language, is it because of it academic origins or because it's not functional enough?
Anyway I don't think it's worth dwelling on popularity. Networking and political effects seem to be more powerful than the merits of a language.
Why is Scala not more popular? It seems like such an awesome language, is it because of it academic origins or because it's not functional enough?
It seems that if you want a multi-paradigm language, Scala is excellent. But if you just want to go down the functional route or OO route (without overlap), there are arguably better choices.
Why is Scala not more popular? It seems like such an awesome language, is it because of it academic origins or because it's not functional enough?
The official announcement is quite an understatement. This release is big, especially the changes to the collections standard library and compiler performance will have a lot of positive impact overall. Now onto 2.14 and Scala 3!
I heard that some are fearmongering that Scala 3 will be as big of the change like Perl 6 and as a result no one will ever use it. I'm not familiar with dotty but somehow it doesn't make sense that Scala core devs would be stupid enough to repeat the same mistakes that Perl did.
* Scala 2.14 and Scala 3 will be binary compatible (via an intermediate form called TASTY)
* The Scala 3.0 compiler will accept most Scala 2.14 source minus some deprecations that have been coming for a while
* Scala is a compiled language and a statically typed one at that, so any source incompatibility or library API incompatibility will be caught by the compiler; fix the issues pointed out and you're migrated.
Why is Scala not more popular? It seems like such an awesome language, is it because of it academic origins or because it's not functional enough?
There are well established programming languages for every single niche requirement. What's Scalas unique selling point? Where are they supposed to get/"steal" their users from?
Extremely excited with the release! I work at a fashion renting company and our backends are built on top of Scala stack. Contrary to popular belief, Scala is actually quite a simple language. Most of our engineers came from PHP or Python, or Ruby and all have expressed how type safety gave them great assurances that everything works if it compiles. On top of that the behaviour of the language is very predictable! We…
The official announcement is quite an understatement. This release is big, especially the changes to the collections standard library and compiler performance will have a lot of positive impact overall. Now onto 2.14 and Scala 3!
I heard that some are fearmongering that Scala 3 will be as big of the change like Perl 6 and as a result no one will ever use it. I'm not familiar with dotty but somehow it doesn't make sense that Scala core devs would be stupid enough to repeat the same mistakes that Perl did.
Except for some really well motivated very advanced language features (eg view bounds) most code should be source compatible, and Scala 3/Dotty is able to use Scala 2 libraries and there's plans for forwards compatibility with Scala 2.14 (2.14 being able to use Scala 3 dependencies)
The big exception is macro's, because they depend heavily on Scala 2 compiler internals. A lot of things you require macro's in Scala 2 will become language features in 3, but for other cases the macro system for 3 is still in active development.
Basically tackling the core problems with the language, with minimal feature creep or additional complexity (I must admit to contributing to that creep in a small way)
Why is Scala not more popular? It seems like such an awesome language, is it because of it academic origins or because it's not functional enough?
It's because of the compiler and SBT to be frank. They are very very clunky.
Why is Scala not more popular? It seems like such an awesome language, is it because of it academic origins or because it's not functional enough?
I've been turned off of it by SBT in the past.
Bazel works well too: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_scala