Will Java 8 Kill Scala?

Re:Will Java 8 Kill Scala? by ninjazee124 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @09:15AM (#7480142)

I used Scala at my previous startup, but for my new startup I decided to build the backend in Java 8. Biggest reasons were the tooling/IDE is just miserable in Scala and the lack of developers in the market. I am really happy with my decision to build our backend with Java 8, quite a joy to write lambda expressions and have the tooling of Java.

Pretty sure I won't be going back to Scala.

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Re:Will Java 8 Kill Scala? by mark_l_watson on Thursday March 27, 2014 @10:30AM (#7480591)

What are you working on for your new startup?

I think that Java 8 is such a large improvement that I will use Java more often, and use Clojure less often for back ends.

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Re:Will Java 8 Kill Scala? by ninjazee124 on Sunday April 06, 2014 @11:09PM (#7544414)

The backend stack is entirely Java 8 built on top of Spring 4 eco system.

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