Is there any reason that you don't switch over to Scala for your main programming language?
I'm in the process of converting a middle-sized PHP codebase completely over to Scala. It is not uncommon for me to see functions that run between 15 and 30 lines shrink to 3 or 4 line functions thanks to the Collections API. On top of that its performance is something you'll never see in PHP or Python. I love Python for its readability and wonderful syntax, but Scala is starting to have an even greater pull on me for its built in concision and the ability to use the entire Java ecosystem without submitting to java's imperative style.
It's very tempting. Frankly, I had enrolled for the course mainly for functional programming and not Scala but towards the end I started liking it. But, at the moment my main languages at work are Python, Erlang and Javascript and I still have a long way to go with these so planning to stick to them for a while.
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Is there any reason that you don't switch over to Scala for your main programming language?
I'm in the process of converting a middle-sized PHP codebase completely over to Scala. It is not uncommon for me to see functions that run between 15 and 30 lines shrink to 3 or 4 line functions thanks to the Collections API. On top of that its performance is something you'll never see in PHP or Python. I love Python for its readability and wonderful syntax, but Scala is starting to have an even greater pull on me for its built in concision and the ability to use the entire Java ecosystem without submitting to java's imperative style.
It's very tempting. Frankly, I had enrolled for the course mainly for functional programming and not Scala but towards the end I started liking it. But, at the moment my main languages at work are Python, Erlang and Javascript and I still have a long way to go with these so planning to stick to them for a while.