Language War - Scala versus Python

Re:Language War - Scala versus Python by melling on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @09:36AM (#5250600)

This was done a few years ago. I'd love to hear what people have to say about Scala now that code bases have grown. Anyone working with a couple hundred thousand lines of Scala?

For instance, I know compilation performance was always frustrating for developers. What's it like for teams of people dealing with a large code base?

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Re:Language War - Scala versus Python by leothekim on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:01AM (#5251150)

We are working with Scala at that scale at Foursquare, and compilation times are definitely a headache. What helps is ensuring your dependencies are acyclic so you're able to do smaller incremental compiles when you make changes. To get us on the path of a DAG-ified codebase, we've been using a build tool developed by Twitter called "pants":

https://github.com/twitter/commons

which has some similarities to Google's Blaze build tool.

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