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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by pmarreck on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:01AM (#13773704)
> erlang style messaging passing paradigms

Or you could, you know, go directly to the source while experiencing a pretty nice language on its own http://elixir-lang.org/

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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by hnbroseph on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:00AM (#13775034)
elixir is for rubyists, really. dynamnic typing.
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Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java by pmarreck on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:34PM (#13778446)
Guards, pattern-matching (even down to the structural level) and typespecs cover a lot of the ground that static typing would, without forcing the type rigidity. Although Haskell seems to have admittedly cornered the static typing market
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