Scala For Java Developers A Practical Primer

SiliconANGLE: IBM and Lightbend join forces on enterprise AI for Scala and Java developers

IBM and Lightbend join forces on enterprise AI for Scala and Java developers

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At a Glance: Why Scala? Java without Semicolons: There’s a saying that Scala is Java without semicolons. There is a lot of a truth to this statement: Scala simplifies much of the noise and boilerplate of Java, while building upon the same foundation, sharing the same underlying types and runtime.

TheServerSide: Why learning Scala, JavaScript and Ruby will make you a better Java developer

Why learning Scala, JavaScript and Ruby will make you a better Java developer

Scala, a trendy object-oriented and functional language for the Java Virtual Machine, is now aligned with Java 8, the latest release of the standard Java platform. Version 2.12.0, released Wednesday, ...

Scala's expressivity and compiler-enforced safety makes it easier to construct reliable concurrent code. With Scala, your programs take full advantage of multi-core and distributed architectures, ensure safe access to resources, and apply back-pressure to data producers according to your processing rate.

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Scala Evolution Scala Improvement Process Description of the process for evolving the language, and list of all the Scala Improvement Proposals (SIPs).

Install Install Scala with cs setup (recommended) To install Scala, it is recommended to use cs setup, the Scala installer powered by Coursier. It installs everything necessary to use the latest Scala release from a command line:

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Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It seamlessly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages.

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Tutorials Tutorials take you by the hand through a series of steps to create Scala applications.