Chapter 9. Scala: powerful and concise
This chapter covers
- Scala is not Java
- Scala syntax and more functional style
- Match expressions and patterns
- Scala’s type system and collections
- Concurrent Scala with actors
Scala is a language that came out of the academic and programming language research community. It has gained a certain amount of adoption, due to its very powerful type system and advanced features, which have proved to be useful for elite teams.
There is currently a lot of interest in Scala, but it’s too early to tell whether it’s a language that will fully permeate the Java ecosystem and challenge Java as a primary development language.
Our best guess is that Scala is going to filter down into more teams, and that some projects ...
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