Scala is a programming language created by Martin Odersky and his team at EPFL Zurich. It compiles down to JVM bytecodes (and interoperates well with Java), has a powerful type system, aided by compiler type inference and a non-verbose syntax. All adding up to a pleasurable programming experience.
Cool Features
(emphatically not an extensive list)
- Powerful type system
- Interoperates seamlessly with Java
- Hybrid, but well integrated, OO/Functional models.
- Sane and safe multiple inheritance with traits
- Great XML library, including XPath-like Internal-DSL querying
- Powerful Erlang-like Actor based concurrency implemented as a library
- A growing community of helpful and knowledgeable programmers
- Syntactic sugar for simple struct-like classes (called case classes)
- etc, etc...
Scala (Official) News
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- etherpad - Project Hosting on Google Code
- Installing Etherpad | Pauleira!
- cheat sheet for scala syntax
- Programming Scala
- The Scala Programming Language
- Clojure vs Ruby & Scala — Transient Newsgroups
- A. Sundararajan's Weblog
- Building Android apps in Scala with sbt
- szeiger.de » Blog Archive » A Zipper for scala.xml
- ScalaTest
Google Blog Search results for Scala
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- Speaking my (programming) language?: Is Scala more complicated ...
- Scala misses some of Java's control structures; Yes, continue and break (well, at least until Scala...
- The Scala Shop! | The Scala Programming Language
- A new resource is available for all the Scala enthusiasts: the Scala Shop! With a great assortment o...
- Scala 2.7.7 final | The Scala Programming Language
- If we do, however, they are going to be bug-fixing releases only, and they will not add any new feat...
- The First Scala Workshop — Scala Days 2010 | The Scala Programming ...
- We seek papers on topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to): language design and imple...
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