Can you point to a particular project written in Scala that exemplifies the best parts of the language? I remember having a lukewarm experience with Scala when I tried it several years ago.
That was my point above about being multi-paradigm/having a powerful type system, what’s interesting about the language may depend whether you approach it from a “OOP done right”, “python with types” or “Haskell on steroids” perspective. Akka/pekko and Play projects may be in the first category, projects built with the Scala toolkit may be representative of the second, and typelevel/zio communities like heavy abstractions and pure functional programming a lot.
This approach may induce drastically different looking code, but on the upside, the Scala community seems to be converging towards those 2/3 styles nowadays, vs. the wild west of before where each project was full of its own idiosyncrasies.
Can you point to a particular project written in Scala that exemplifies the best parts of the language? I remember having a lukewarm experience with Scala when I tried it several years ago.
That was my point above about being multi-paradigm/having a powerful type system, what’s interesting about the language may depend whether you approach it from a “OOP done right”, “python with types” or “Haskell on steroids” perspective. Akka/pekko and Play projects may be in the first category, projects built with the Scala toolkit may be representative of the second, and typelevel/zio communities like heavy abstractions and pure functional programming a lot.
This approach may induce drastically different looking code, but on the upside, the Scala community seems to be converging towards those 2/3 styles nowadays, vs. the wild west of before where each project was full of its own idiosyncrasies.