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The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala (www.scala-lang.org)

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[–] misk@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] KRAW@linux.community 3 points 1 day ago

It's also the basis for a popular hardwaregeneration language, chisel. No clue why they chose it

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There's a lot of big applications and systems built with it. You just don't hear about it because it's not cool.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What makes it that bad?

[–] Darkmoon_AU@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (3 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.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours 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.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

Been a while since I've used Scala, but I remember Scala being much more focused on functional programming than Kotlin.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago

Thanks, that's really helpful!

[–] misk@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago

Scala is essentially Java so most of Java criticism applies.