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Re:From First Principles: Why Scala? by esarbe on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:49AM (#26062940)
Is there a language with better tooling and a better ecosystem?

Because the Scala tooling has become quite awesome in the last three to four years and the ecosystem is superb.

Sure, you can go with Kotlin which I guess shares much of the ecosystem (from Java). But you will miss out on a lot of the Scala libraries and features that make Scala nice to work with. And if you are learning a new language anyway, why not go for the real McCoy?

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Re:From First Principles: Why Scala? by mohanmcgeek on Friday February 12, 2021 @04:24AM (#26111916)
Because the Scala comes with a lot of FP fanaticism that is counter productive.

And the other languages have better ecosystem.. you can use kotlin for Android development but doing the same with Scala is close to impossible.

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