Probably more importantly, it runs on the JVM and is designed to interoperate with existing Java code. (FWIW, I actually think they made a major mistake in how they handle null Java objects, and that Kotlin did better here; but Kotlin is much newer.)
I assume Scala is like a “gateway” (drug) to functional programming by way of also supporting imperative and object oriented paradigms.
Ouuu. This makes sense to me, well thought
Probably more importantly, it runs on the JVM and is designed to interoperate with existing Java code. (FWIW, I actually think they made a major mistake in how they handle
nullJava objects, and that Kotlin did better here; but Kotlin is much newer.)Oh good point I totally forgot it’s a JVM lang.