Introduction
Glad to see your interest in Scala. Thank you for choosing this book to learn and exercise the combined power of two programming paradigms—object-oriented and functional—fused together in one language.
The Java ecosystem is one of the most powerful platforms to develop and deploy enterprise applications. It’s ubiquitous and versatile; it has a rich set of libraries and runs on multiple types of hardware; and there are well over 200 languages to program on it.
I’ve had the privilege to learn and work with a dozen languages and have written books on a few. Languages are like vehicles—they come with different capabilities and help us navigate the platform. It’s quite heartwarming to see that programmers today have the liberty to choose ...
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