I have found it both interesting and rewarding to learn a new programming language or major framework on a roughly yearly basis. If forced to self-identify with any single programming language, it ...

For the past two years, my day-to-day programming language has been Scala. Scala is a hybrid language that combines the approaches of object-orientation and functional programming. You can treat ...

Stack Overflow surveyed over 73,000 developers to find the highest-paying programming languages, including Clojure, Elixir, and Scala.

There are many touted benefits of the Scala programming language , especially for Java developers. Among others, Scala's advertised strengths and advantages include the following: ...

A recent developer survey from Stack Overflow (Stack Exchange Inc.) shows that only 4 percent of professional programmers use the scalable language Scala in their projects. That’s a far cry from ...

Assembly language provides fine grain control. But it’s rarely used these days, with the exception of some operating-system hackers or 8-bit embedded programmers working on small ...

Version 3 of the Scala programming language includes the latest research in type theory and many new features such as new “quiet” syntax for control structures like ‘if’, ‘while’, and ...

Kite, which suggests code snippets for developers in real time, today added support for 11 more programming languages, bringing its total to 13. In addition to Python and JavaScript, Kite’s AI ...

Scala, a general-purpose language combining object-oriented and functional programming, is about to find another deployment option.

The open-source Scala programming language is getting a big boost today in form of venture-funding for a new start-up. Typesafe is launching the first commercial entity behind Scala, founded by ...