As such, the book does not delve much into Scala syntax or semantics and moves quickly through basic functional programming concepts to get to more advanced and abstract notions.

One more than one occasion, I’ve found myself yearning for a more functional paradigm that facilitates easier concurrency programming on the JVM.

Scala is designed to allow the functional programming style. But what does Scala functional programming actually mean? Let’s start with the fact that functional programs are immutable.

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers ...

Scala is not among the most popular programming languages but soon this could change. With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their ...

Stack Overflow, analyzing data from its huge developer survey, has concluded that Go and Scala skills pay off the most in the U.S.

Python has scaled to the top of the monthly PyPL language popularity index, overtaking Java. Also on the rise, in the rival Tiobe index, is Scala, which has again cracked the index’s Top 20 ...