The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala
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The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala
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#3Why would the governments invest money on such a niche language?
"Scala is widely used to build and operate essential systems across multiple industries." - very bold statement.
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#4I learned recently that one of the killer apps for Scala seems to be in hardware design. Chisel [0] is the core technology of the best open source RISC-V chips. Chipyard [1] is designing leading edge type OOE and AI chips and all of the code is written in Scala. Personally, I can't wait for some of these designs to start being mass produced and put in laptops and phones.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel_(programming_language)
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#5Why would the governments invest money on such a niche language? "Scala is widely used to build and operate essential systems across multiple industries." - very bold statement.
I made another comment about it. But the answer is Scala is the number one language for building hardware these days via Chisel.
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#6Why would the governments invest money on such a niche language? "Scala is widely used to build and operate essential systems across multiple industries." - very bold statement.
As a European project the foundation is likely pursuing funding from EU sources using the fact that it isn’t US tech as a selling point.
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#7Why would the governments invest money on such a niche language? "Scala is widely used to build and operate essential systems across multiple industries." - very bold statement.
I made another comment about it. But the answer is Scala is the number one language for building hardware these days via Chisel.
https://www.chisel-lang.org/community
second link - 404
third link - achieved project on github
fourth link - educational project
Perhaps it's a very know and useful project, yet indeed seems very niche to me.
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#8Why would the governments invest money on such a niche language? "Scala is widely used to build and operate essential systems across multiple industries." - very bold statement.
Probably because it's an amazing language for people who know what they're doing
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#9I learned recently that one of the killer apps for Scala seems to be in hardware design. Chisel [0] is the core technology of the best open source RISC-V chips. Chipyard [1] is designing leading edge type OOE and AI chips and all of the code is written in Scala. Personally, I can't wait for some of these designs to start being mass produced and put in laptops and phones. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel_(prog…
So, as a justification for support of scala, the thing that seems lacking to me is that Chisel seems to still be centered around scala 2? E.g. their recommended template for getting started still uses scala 2 ... so without support to motivate them to use scala 3, it's not obvious that Chisel benefits much from current work on the scala language? I have not fully understood the Chisel project but I see they have a "compiler plugin" which suggests to me that moving fully off scala 2 requires a meaningful redesign.
https://github.com/chipsalliance/chisel-template/blob/main/b...
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#10Why would the governments invest money on such a niche language? "Scala is widely used to build and operate essential systems across multiple industries." - very bold statement.
Is it niche? Scala is arguably the single most successful functional language. It interoperates with the whole JVM ecosystem. It's probably the #3 JVM language after Java and Kotlin.
Spark is Scala, Twitter was (is?) Scala https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala...