Beginning Scala, Second Edition

CHAPTER 13

Scala Best Practices

Thanks for hanging in and reading all this way. We’ve covered a lot of ground so far. We’ve discussed the Scala language and developed a collection of idioms for building applications using Scala. We’ve explored how Scala can be used by different team members in different ways. We’ve seen how Scala allows you to compose fine-grained pieces of code together into complex systems that work well together.

But no technology is an island. No matter how good Scala is in the abstract, it’s only valuable if it can help your organization produce better and more maintainable code, faster. The good news is that Scala compiles ...