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Did you use sbt incremental compilation?
For a while. Eventually we abandoned SBT in favor of pants which is, imho, a much better build tool. It also supports incremental compilation but it was still slow.
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For a while. Eventually we abandoned SBT in favor of pants which is, imho, a much better build tool. It also supports incremental compilation but it was still slow.
What was the value proposition of pants? I'm no fan of sbt, but having sunk the cost of getting comfortable with it, what can pants offer?
So I think Scala is more or less steady in usage. There is no rise or fall of Scala.
> Scala will probably never become the next big programming language. But, it will be around for years to come as the language of choice for niche problem domains such as Big Data programming.
EDIT: Thank you dsabanin and sndean for the clarification. The flag is justified -- his data is definitely faulty. There was no rise of scala to #13 in 2012 (I looked through a few other months of TIOBE too). It looks like it has been steadily rising.
It is unfortunate, most of the article (excluding the clickbait hook) is about the benefits of functional programming (like Scala).
I think those that are upset about a realistic look at their favorite language should read through to the end. He goes into a lot of the benefit of functional programming and Scala over java. It certainly doesn't deserved to be flagged. The TIOBE index shows a pretty clear rise and fall for Scala in terms of relative popularity (#13 in 2012 to #32 in 2016). Here is the last bit of the article: > Scala will probably n…
Here's TIOBE for May 2012:
https://www.scribd.com/document/94860678/TIOBE-Programming-C....
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For a while. Eventually we abandoned SBT in favor of pants which is, imho, a much better build tool. It also supports incremental compilation but it was still slow.
What was the value proposition of pants? I'm no fan of sbt, but having sunk the cost of getting comfortable with it, what can pants offer?
This is pretty much the same concept as Blaze/Bazel or Buck, but from Twitter.
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What was the value proposition of pants? I'm no fan of sbt, but having sunk the cost of getting comfortable with it, what can pants offer?
You can check out this talk, given by a Foursquare engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqke8iTuH0 This is pretty much the same concept as Blaze/Bazel or Buck, but from Twitter.
(sorry. pet peeve.)
Scala is >12 year old. Excluding libraries /frameworks, there are couple of popular Scala projects like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka. Other than that I am not aware if any big/popular open source projects are using Scala. May be it is used more in internal software development at companies. So I think Scala is more or less steady in usage. There is no rise or fall of Scala.
Scala is >12 year old.
I think those that are upset about a realistic look at their favorite language should read through to the end. He goes into a lot of the benefit of functional programming and Scala over java. It certainly doesn't deserved to be flagged. The TIOBE index shows a pretty clear rise and fall for Scala in terms of relative popularity (#13 in 2012 to #32 in 2016). Here is the last bit of the article: > Scala will probably n…
There's no fall, Scala rose on TIOBE, not fell. His data is wrong or he's lying. Here's TIOBE for May 2012: https://www.scribd.com/document/94860678/TIOBE-Programming-C... .
http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html?country=US
Scala looks pretty steady since 2013. If anything, it's gone up.