alt Hacker NewsIs it niche? Scala is arguably the single most successful functional language. It interoperates with the whole JVM ecosystem. It's probably the #3 JVM language after Java and Kotlin.
Spark is Scala, Twitter was (is?) Scala https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala...
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dehrmann • yesterday at 5:17 PM
> Scala is arguably the single most successful functional language.
That would be Javascript.
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ActorNightly • yesterday at 4:15 PM
Anything that runs on JVM should not be invested in.
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Scala was niche (but of course, you need to define niche first) and its market share has shrunk further in the last decade.