What do you think about Scala in terms of employment opportunities? 🤔
Twitter is your employer Great language. Horrible sbt runtime to compile. Java does whatever Scala does with an actual community in Stack Overflow. And worthless language for interviewing. Hybrid functional language that will leave you to forget much of C style coding.
This ^^^^ …. We just go with java for our big data use cases, easy to hire people too
That too. Scala has a big uptime for new coworkers to get familiar with language. Niche skill.
Good language, toxic community, terrible employment prospects.
Hope it gains more traction 🤞🏻
It’s part of my resume having done some spark Scala work in the past. It’s the only language I seem to get specialized recruiters for. “I recruit specifically for scala roles” type stuff. They’re almost all startups but there have been some good reqs brought to me, 200k+ base positions. But I really don’t work in that arena so I didn’t pursue.
I once tried scalaz which makes scala more functional. I felt more like reading math to understand each function of scalaz. But it was good.
Avoid
If you are working with spark what else is there?
Java
and python, and R
Not really a fan of Scala. If you want a state of the art language for the JVM, I'd pick Kotlin
Really dislike it. I’m glad I don’t need to use it daily.
I thought databricks is all scala. I hate it too
Maybe mine is the only C++ team in Databricks.
I liked working in Scala (used it with Spark a few years back), but adoption seems to have not really taken off much past few years.
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Do you use it at fb ?
No, it’s mostly hack/php in the backend