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The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala (www.scala-lang.org)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] 3 points 9 months ago

Good, makes sense, as Scala is 'made in Europe' (mainly swiss and polish teams), and makes very robust software. Only it’s under-hyped. Here you can try my interactive climate-system web-model written in latest Scala, which compiles three ways - to the web-app you see, to native code for fast calculations, and to a jvm desktop app (with 25 years history, originally java).

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    I thought only the most miserable data engineers are using it.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    It powers lichess.org, who have made multiple blogposts about how happy they are with it.

    Lichess is a FOSS chess server that somehow manages to compete with chess.com proprietary, distributed, milticloud kubernetes setup from a single VPS. According to them, scala helps.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    What makes it that bad?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    AFAIK it's an excellent language let down by political in-fighting in the ecosystem and subsequent fragmentation of is otherwise 'standard' libraries. IMO this kills the language.

    Kotlin offers most of what Scala does with a much more solid and supportive ecosystem, it's the obvious winner in the ecological niche of 'better JVM languages', for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Umm, Clojure joined the chat.

    Clojure in my opinion is the most beautiful and powerful language I have ever seen.

    It has the full power of java ecosystem, amazing and simple concurrency, extremely simple syntax and semantics. You literally start ascending to other dimensions after a while of writing clojure. It's like you are talking to your software.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    I don't think that's a fair representation. Like for any community, you tend to hear the most about a vocal minority, and drama there was, indeed. That's not unique to Scala, that doesn't mean that a majority was engaged in it or was affected by it.

    The point about fragmentation holds, though: Scala is a multi-paradigm language, so you tend to have communities assembling around core set of libraries and abstractions that fit their specific needs. It's not a bad thing from an engineering perspective (you get to pick the most adequate tool for the job), but it will be intimidating at first, and understandably ridiculous when coming from a different ecosystem that you've a choice of a dozen or so JSON deserializing libraries. https://index.scala-lang.org/ Is a great help, though.

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