Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Here we begin a series of articles to look at Scala. Scala is a programming language that rides ...

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The Scala programming language, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has made some inroads into enterprise deployments, but improvements in areas such as tooling will help take it even further, the ...

Scala, a language specializing in functional and object-oriented programming, has been running on the Java Virtual Machine for several years now, enjoying adoption from enterprises and startups alike.

Martin Odersky is the designer of the Scala programming language, a general-purpose statically typed language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It can be used to build distributed systems and ...

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.

Frege, a functional language on the JVM, wants to give Scala a run for its money and entice developers. Spotlighted during a session at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Frege is pure ...