class scala[A] { def apply[B](f: (A) => B) = directly to forehead }

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Pollyanna: Mar 5, 2005; Milk's on them.

I'm going through the Scala portion of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, and is it just me, or does Swift take a bunch of concepts from Scala? :v:

Realtalk though, I find it to be much more tolerable than plain Java. It's actually akin to making a project in Python or Ruby instead of "everything must be a class always always always".

PlesantDilemma posted:

Scala seems pretty cool. I'm getting into more Java these days and out of the php slums, Scala looks like it could be a fun next language to tackle.

KernelSlanders, what do you use Scala for at your work? How much Java did you know before you got into Scala?

As an outsider, here is my preconceptions of Scala:

popular for backend things

somewhat popular for web things

people complain that the language is too complex

I get confused every time I see val four: Int because I want to see the type come before the variable name

I'd love to know what Scala is used for, too. I understand that it's gotten popular for backend web dev, but where else is it applied?

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