An ambitious new skills report drawing on salary information from more than 2 million workers reveals that learning the programming languages Scala and Go are excellent career moves for software ...

Using Specs2 Spring to test your Java apps is an efficient and safe way to learn the patterns of object-functional programming with Scala: you get the benefits of Specs2 (a Scala-based open source ...

Scala is essentially the C++ of high level (ergo, memory managed) languages on the JVM. It supports many paradigms equally, and due to this, it has sacrificed the "simplicity" of the language. Even ...

There was a time when TheServerSide.com was a site primarily focused on Java development, and for those wishing to do .NET development, there was TheServerSide.net as well. But the server-side ...

Scala is a powerful programming language for the Java virtual machine (JVM). It can give you higher quality and more concise code. Moreover, it offers a safe road to high-performance, scalable systems ...

Although proponents of Scala push for its usage in a vast array of situations, adopting a new programming language can just as easily be a path to failure as it can be a path to victory. In some cases ...

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