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The Scala Ecosystem

April 6, 2012 by substructural: Programming and the Markets   Comments (0)

Scala certainly has a lot going for it these days. They have the enthusiasm of at least a couple of the hottest tech companies out there in Twitter and Foursquare. Even Sony is using Scala in some of its systems. There are at least two fairly usable web frameworks, Lift and Play. Akka middleware provides a scalable lock-free concurrency abstraction. XML support is built-in. Interoperability with Java is standard, thus giving Scala access to important systems and APIs such as Hadoop, JSoup,...