Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java
by kelnos on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:08AM
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Algorithms and data structures will be mostly the same regardless of what language you use.
Architecture will generally not be. Scala and Java encourage building applications in different ways. That doesn't mean one is better than the other (though I'd argue you could make that claim), but some problem domains are better modeled with Scala, and likely some with Java. And some programmers work better tending toward a pure, immutable, functional style, while others work better with OO, side effects, and mutable data.
While choice of language/framework may not be as important as many other choices you need to make when building an application, but it's not something that should be dismissed as irrelevant, either.
Architecture will generally not be. Scala and Java encourage building applications in different ways. That doesn't mean one is better than the other (though I'd argue you could make that claim), but some problem domains are better modeled with Scala, and likely some with Java. And some programmers work better tending toward a pure, immutable, functional style, while others work better with OO, side effects, and mutable data.
While choice of language/framework may not be as important as many other choices you need to make when building an application, but it's not something that should be dismissed as irrelevant, either.