"Yes, we're using Scala for some projects at Quora, both big and small. As a programming language, it offers the following advantages: fast, concise, type-safe, object-oriented yet functional, easy parallelism, extensible and built on the JVM. It is also gaining more adoption in the industry and thus getting more support. At Quora, we'll choose the best tools and stack for the product we're building, and that includes our language choices at times."
Re:What are you using PyPy for?
by newhouseb on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:35PM
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From talking to Quora engineers, my understanding is that they rewrote the majority of their stack in Scala. They might still be running Tornado (under PyPy) for their realtime connections to clients.
http://www.quora.com/Is-the-Quora-team-considering-adopting-...
"Yes, we're using Scala for some projects at Quora, both big and small. As a programming language, it offers the following advantages: fast, concise, type-safe, object-oriented yet functional, easy parallelism, extensible and built on the JVM. It is also gaining more adoption in the industry and thus getting more support. At Quora, we'll choose the best tools and stack for the product we're building, and that includes our language choices at times."