are there any other big company relying on scala for their core infra ?
A few teams at Sky are using it (my team included).
Net-a-porter too.
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#32A well known resource (albeit a bit outdated); however I'm genuinely curious why is this on the front page of hacker news.
I thought at first that it's been updated to some 2.1X version but, judging by the github repo, it hasn't been touched for years.
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#33The Dark Side for Beginners ;)
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Walmart, EnerNOC, Verizon, LinkedIn, Hootsuite, Coursera, Foursquare, Meetup.com, Nitro, Workday, AirBnB, there's quite a lot..
I'm curious, why Scala over all other options?
AFAIK, quite some components (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, etc) of a typical big data stack are JVM based. Scala is JVM. And quite some people hate Java. That could be an answer.
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#35Curious question, anyone here using Scala for Android development?
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Impressive list.
Most of those companies use a bunch of technologies, Scala being only a small part of their stack. Only a few of those companies use Scala as their main language.
Is it really common for companies to have a single dominant language though? It seems that most companies have their eggs in four or so baskets.
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#37Curious question, anyone here using Scala for Android development?
AFAIK, there's not much Scala in mobile Dev in general.
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#38Learning Scala is such a pain. Either you follow a large book completely and master it across several months/years or go through overly complicated online guides and get discouraged. I understand it's a large, advanced language, but the community has to seriously work on making things a bit easier for beginners like me. Just look at how easy it is to learn Go or Rust, their official tutorials are amazing and free on…
The real question: is it worth it? Up to now I could successfully avoid learning Scala. My problem with it is the complexity that the language by itself introduces and the readability of code that comes out at the end. Maybe I am just valuing simplicity too much when it comes to programming languages. Anyways thanks for the impatient guide!
I'd say yes. It certainly is hard and I spent the first few months wrestling with the syntax, but when you figure out all the puzzle pieces and they come together, then it suddenly turns very beautiful and terse.
The terseness is probably what makes the learning hardest, but there is utility there, because you don't have to focus on the boilerplate, but can see more of the algorithm at once.
Also, anything that moves you more towards fp is a good thing, because again, when you start to get it and manage to apply it in the correct way, it is extremely elegant and composable.
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#39Curious question, anyone here using Scala for Android development?
The company I am contracted to has an Android app written in Scala.
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#40Learning Scala is such a pain. Either you follow a large book completely and master it across several months/years or go through overly complicated online guides and get discouraged. I understand it's a large, advanced language, but the community has to seriously work on making things a bit easier for beginners like me. Just look at how easy it is to learn Go or Rust, their official tutorials are amazing and free on…
In this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-I_X-k3D8A Martin Odersky talks about Scala centre. Coming 2016, it's two purposes are to:
1. organise open source projects around Scala
2. organise and develop online teaching