Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Aug 2009 18:54 UTC, submitted by inkslinger
Scala looks like it is becoming the web 2.0 darling, popular with Twitter and LinkedIn developers but also heavily utilized in the corporate space. Martin Odersky speaks in detail about the language in this interview. He talks about why it could become the language of choice for social networking platforms, particularly after doing well in the acid test of being used by sites like Twitter and LinkedIn. "Twitter has been able to sustain phenomenal growth, and it seems with more stability than what they had before the switch, so I think that's a good testament to Scala," he said.
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It is a good language, but devs need their tools. The Vim and Emacs users can suck it.
I still feel more productive using scala and notepad than using java or c# and the most fancy IDE imaginable.
Nevertheless, martin ordersky himself is working on improving the IDE support by providing compiler infrastructure for code completion, refactoring etc.