The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala

Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by epolanski on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:51AM (#46812750)

Others worth mentioning are Kotlin, Ada, Pascal, Haskell, Zig, Erlang, Elixir, Prolog, Ocaml.

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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by rapnie on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:21PM (#46814181)

Former EU, there's Gleam.

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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by homebrewer on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:15PM (#46815942)

Kotlin is from St Petersburg, it's even named after an island near it.

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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by epolanski on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:58PM (#46816485)

St. Petersburg is in Europe.

I thought what was worth mentioning was being European or not, rather than being part of an European legal entity or not.

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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by Y-bar on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:26PM (#46816077)

PHP is also from Europe. Not sexy perhaps, but popular enough to mention.

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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by ternaryoperator on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:08PM (#46817422)

How is Zig an EU language?

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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by epolanski on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:46AM (#46822002)

Andrew started the language while he was in Germany.

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Re:The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala by ElectronCharge on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:13PM (#46818225)

Sadly, I’m old enough to remember that Ada was the result of a US initiative to standardize a capable language for embedded development.

A good friend worked on the well regarded Telesoft compiler…

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