Why does Mill use Scala?

Re:Why does Mill use Scala? by lmm on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:38PM (#43042891)

Scala is hardly some obscure bespoke language. It's a top-20, maybe top-10 programming language, that's been around for 20+ years (and had far fewer breaking changes than Python over that time). Most Python translates directly into Scala, but with the benefit of a proper sound type system and full IDE support. And it's a great language for data munging.

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Re:Why does Mill use Scala? by makeitdouble on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:40PM (#43043304)

The claim sounded outlandish, but Scala looks indeed to be around the top 10~20 languages in hiring for instance:

https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog...

Scala is only in 0.5% of the scanned job offerings, and is far far behind the major languages in numbers, but I was surprised there's more demand than Rust or even Perl to be honest.

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Re:Why does Mill use Scala? by iforgot22 on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:56PM (#43043410)

I'm not surprised it's above Rust and Perl, but it's below Dart?! Ouch.

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Re:Why does Mill use Scala? by camdenreslink on Thursday February 13, 2025 @08:05PM (#43043472)

Might as well just list it as Flutter (Dart).

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Re:Why does Mill use Scala? by bdangubic on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:50PM (#43042970)

this “top 10” your LLM hallucinating? :)

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