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Re:Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what d... by kclay on Saturday March 16, 2013 @02:26PM (#5386237)
Well for me It would mean I used Play! The fact that its built on netty (non-blocking io) and is by default async that and its Iteratee and Enumerator makes it real nice for api dev.
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Re:Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what d... by Evbn on Saturday March 16, 2013 @04:00PM (#5386551)
Poe'd?

This is exactly the buzzword mumbo jumbo that OP was asking to have clarified.

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Re:Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what d... by playing_colours on Saturday March 16, 2013 @05:27PM (#5386875)
We use Unfiltered. Playframework/Scalatra are also considered as good alternatives.
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Re:Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what d... by bschiett on Sunday March 17, 2013 @03:25AM (#5388481)
They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.
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Re:Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what d... by lutusp on Sunday March 17, 2013 @03:46AM (#5388520)
> They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.

The claim "java is a programming language for lamers" is only true if portability isn't important. Portability is important. Android's reliance on Java proves that.

If you had simply said that Java is a sucky, crippled language, I would have agreed.

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Re:Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what d... by taf2 on Sunday March 17, 2013 @11:41AM (#5389564)
I'm not sure portability is why android has java as its primary language ... For example http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
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Re:Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what d... by room271 on Saturday March 16, 2013 @03:52PM (#5386524)
We use Scalatra. It doesn't do too much/get in the way.
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