What Are The Benefits Of Scala?

java, scala

Solution

Go read Daniel Spiewak's excellent blog series about Scala. With Scala you can keep:

- all your Java libraries

- all the advantages of running on a JVM (ubiquity, administrative tools, profiling, garbage collection etc)

But you can write Scala code:

- more concise and clear than Java (especially using more functional style, such as in the collections library)

- it has closures and functions as part of the language

- it has operator overloading (from the perspective of usage)

- it has mixins (i.e. interfaces which contain implementation)

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