Hands-on Scala Programming
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Hands-on Scala Programming
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Re: Hands-on Scala Programming
#2I didn't post this, but cool to see this up here!
The full book is ~400 pages and will be released Summer 2020 (i.e. soon!). If you're interested in being notified when it comes out, there's a mailing list link on the page and I'll let you know when it's out. There will be both E-Books as well as paperbacks & hardcovers (assuming the supply-chains are still open in this COVID-19 global environment...)
The first 5 chapters are already online, for free now and forever. These form a self-contained introduction to the Scala language: setup, basic syntax, collections, and a notable language features. If you're looking for a quick introduction to Scala, this is it.
The rest of the book goes heavily into use cases and projects in a way that few other programming books do: interactive websites, network file synchronizers, programming language interpreters, migration tools, parallel web scrapers, and much more. The book intentionally skips a lot of language esoterica in favor of showing how to use Scala to do things someone might pay you a salary for.
You will learn Scala by building a breadth of useful experience, rather than a depth of knowledge in language minutiae.
The chapters in the book are all based on real projects I have worked on. Most projects take If this interests you, feel free to leave your email on the website, and browse through the free chapters already available.
Re: Hands-on Scala Programming
#3great action to make scala more accessible to developers. this should be a concrete answer to https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/TheDeathofHypeWhatsNextforScala...
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#4awesome.. your blog has been extremely helpful to me.. looking forward to the book.
Re: Hands-on Scala Programming
#5I didn't post this, but cool to see this up here! The full book is ~400 pages and will be released Summer 2020 (i.e. soon!). If you're interested in being notified when it comes out, there's a mailing list link on the page and I'll let you know when it's out. There will be both E-Books as well as paperbacks & hardcovers (assuming the supply-chains are still open in this COVID-19 global environment...) The first 5 cha…
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#6fyi, he is also the son of current Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Re: Hands-on Scala Programming
#7I work JavaScript/TypeScript day to day, but I like Python syntax and easiness but also like Go's concurrency. Having learned Haskell and Rust in the past, these days I appreciate simpler language.
In what way does Scala have Python's convenience and Go's concurrency? Based on talking to a few people that used Scala in the past they said they wouldn't use it again and they said I probably wouldn't like it.
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#8I work JavaScript/TypeScript day to day, but I like Python syntax and easiness but also like Go's concurrency. Having learned Haskell and Rust in the past, these days I appreciate simpler language. In what way does Scala have Python's convenience and Go's concurrency? Based on talking to a few people that used Scala in the past they said they wouldn't use it again and they said I probably wouldn't like it.
If you like simpler languages, you'll probably hate Scala. It's one of the most complex out there.
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#9I work JavaScript/TypeScript day to day, but I like Python syntax and easiness but also like Go's concurrency. Having learned Haskell and Rust in the past, these days I appreciate simpler language. In what way does Scala have Python's convenience and Go's concurrency? Based on talking to a few people that used Scala in the past they said they wouldn't use it again and they said I probably wouldn't like it.
Scalas echosystem is overloaded with overly complex libraries that take months to learn. Li Haoyi has been trying to change that for years with his to the point open source projects. In my opinion, now is a pretty good time to get into scala with projects from Haoyi, ZIO, quill, akka, and many others that are built on strength of scala itself matured way pass being carbon copies of java or Haskell's equivalents.
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#10I work JavaScript/TypeScript day to day, but I like Python syntax and easiness but also like Go's concurrency. Having learned Haskell and Rust in the past, these days I appreciate simpler language. In what way does Scala have Python's convenience and Go's concurrency? Based on talking to a few people that used Scala in the past they said they wouldn't use it again and they said I probably wouldn't like it.
"In what way does Scala have Python's convenience and Go's concurrency" - I think that is exactly what the book is trying to teach you. There are some pretty good examples in the free chapters