What are your guys thoughts about scala?
Or would you guys recommend using kotlin over it as it is the new flavour of the month.
Scala?
Thomas Phillips
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Jayden Adams
Scala is dead. Too hard for the average normie to learn. Kotlin is where industry is going and will actually get you a job.
Ian Miller
Nobody has good enough internet yet to get what they promise.
Aaron Ward
I heard that Scala is only functional language you can a job with, as its used heavily in big data
Jackson Brown
Basically true. Scala and Elixir are the only relevant functional programming languages that can you a job.
Christopher Green
Still doesn't mean you have any hope of getting a job with Scala anyway. You have a better chance with Elixir with Phoenix since it is the hot new Ruby on Rails for startups.
Jacob Johnson
I am currently looking to make a desktop application and the jvm provides swing and fx so if scala or koltin can use that I would be pretty happy,
Lincoln Jones
there's scalafx
Camden Walker
Language of h1bs. They love bigdata because it's big bullshit that gets them paid. Join any Spark or Hadoop Facebook group and you'll see.
Luis Bell
From what I have seen its slavs and ruskis that love it.
Ethan Howard
F# and Clojure are sometimes used in industry—albeit totally dwarfed by languages like C#—and there are at least a few shops that use OCaml. There's also Elixir. It's also worth nothing that Scala is not purely functional.
Jace Taylor
>Few
You mean one: Janestreet
Jeremiah Lewis
Every language on the JVM is designed to interop with Java.
Matthew Bell
Any idea how scala fairs on performance and
resource consumption ?
Chase Lewis
a tad slower than java in general, not enough to care really. I mean, Spark is made in Scala.
Joshua Phillips
There are a couple of others: en.wikipedia.org
Dominic Thompson
Learning it as I go for a uni class. Not a fan at all so far, but I haven't been a fan of the other functional language (F#) I was pushed into either
Aaron Mitchell
>Elixir
>Job
pick one
Jaxon Brown
Kotlin is last years hype. Xtend is now the new fad in wannabe java jvm langauges. It's also a step in the right direction. Much better than Kotlin even.
Mason Bennett
Where I live many start ups and companies are switching to Elixir because it scales better than most other languages and does micro services very easily compare to other languages.
Jordan Nelson
I love Elixir, but I live in Los Angeles and it's SUPER rare. Might be a dozen jobs in the whole of the USA at any time from what I've seen on indeed.com