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Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by kaba0 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:02PM (#39618799)
Scala is an absolutely small language. It is just very expressive, but its complexity is quite different than, say, Cpp’s, which has many features.
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Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by sanderjd on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:24PM (#39621690)
In my view you have compared it to the only other language for which it is small by comparison :) But different strokes for different folks! I have nothing against Scala, its multi-paradigm thing is cool and impressive, it just isn't for me except by way of curiosity.
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Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by kaba0 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:31PM (#39621792)
Could you list all the features you are thinking of?
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Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by sanderjd on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @07:18PM (#39623535)
I think all the links in the first two sections in the What Is Scala[0] docs give the flavor pretty well. It contains a full (and not small) set of OO language functionality, alongside an even more full-featured functional language.

There are a lot of adjectives you can use to describe Scala - mostly good ones! - but "small" just isn't one of them.

0: https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/tour-of-scala.html#what-is-...

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