Scala is my next choice

34 points by khelll 16 years ago | 9 comments

st3fan 16 years ago |

These 'look how these 4 lines of Java translate into 2 lines of Scala' don't really convince me to start using it. It would be a nice to see a more structural example. Like a real world app. Anything available that is open source?

carterschonwald 16 years ago | |

I think the best justification for using scala is that on one hand you have a very nice language which is maintained by some very smart people and has a lot of nice things that are otherwise only available with ocaml,sml, haskell, scheme, or F#, and on the other hand the programs are running on one of the best just in time compilation virtual machines that exist. Thats a very very nice combo.

[note for clarity: by smart, I mean the maintainers/designers are folks with phd's whose careers are dedicated to understanding how to design useful/powerful programming languages]

timf 16 years ago | |

Try these, for starters:

http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master

http://github.com/dpp/lift-samples/tree/master ( http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/master )

st3fan 16 years ago | | |

Thanks. I'm reading the Kestrel source and it looks very interesting.

dave_au 16 years ago |

I've been considering having a look at Scala as the next potential language that I'll learn.

It looks pretty nice. I'd add another point to the article - what I've seen of the community from mailing lists and such has been very positive. It seems like they're all (or mostly) very smart and welcoming.

johnbender 16 years ago |

The section regarding pure functions doesn't inspire me much about using Scala in a "functional way".

ilkhd2 16 years ago |

Scala is not only means [A Ladder; Stairs], But also A Rock, in Slavic languages... And Marin (the creator of Scala) has polish last name, and most probably is polish..

krzyk 16 years ago | |

I don't know what slavic languages you have in mind, but in Polish, Scala does NOT mean a rock, it means "combines"

heroin 16 years ago | |

in slovak and czech language, scala is pronounced the same as 'skala', that means rock.