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Re:Scala Native by mistrial9 on Monday August 19, 2019 @10:11PM (#20743307)
uninformed question: is not The Driver for Scala to interact with Apache Spark ? Secondly, it seems from comments here that Scala -> JS is a thing, so that is used for .. ? Third, is it the case that Scala 3 is taking the wind out of Scala 2 improvements, and the dev community is small enough such that, that is visible as 'not much happening' with Scala 2x ?
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Re:Scala Native by sjrd on Monday August 19, 2019 @10:57PM (#20743480)
> is not The Driver for Scala to interact with Apache Spark ?

A gateway drug? Perhaps. A driver? Perhaps. The only driver? Nope. For example Scala is used a lot for regular Web servers.

> Secondly, it seems from comments here that Scala -> JS is a thing, so that is used for .. ?

* For the frontend of Web applications, notably because it allows reuse of code across client and server;

* For CLI applications based on Node.js (better startup time than with the JVM);

* For server apps based on Node.js (for people who like the Node.js ecosystem better than the JVM's, or who have an existing codebase to integrate with);

* For AWS Lambda apps (again, better startup time than the JVM);

* For mobile apps through React Native;

* For embedded applications, in cases where a JavaScript engine is available but no JVM;

* For browser extensions;

* For integration with any other kind of application that provides hooks in JavaScript (e.g., Google Sheets, see https://medium.com/@antoine.doeraene/make-your-google-spread...)

* etc.

> Third, is it the case that Scala 3 is taking the wind out of Scala 2 improvements, and the dev community is small enough such that, that is visible as 'not much happening' with Scala 2x ?

No it is not the case. There are as many core contributors to Scala 2.x now than there were before the Scala 3 effort was launched. And there are many more external contributors, with numbers growing every year.

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Re:Scala Native by dwohnitmok on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:38AM (#20743886)
The machine behind Scala.js! Thank you for all you've done.

Out of curiosity, what remaining features/bug fixes are you planning to target for v1?

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Re:Scala Native by sjrd on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:04AM (#20744207)
It's all in the issue tracker: https://github.com/scala-js/scala-js/issues. Look for issues attached to 1.x milestones.
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