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A blend of object-oriented and functional programming

The JVM language behind Spark and big-data engineering: a strong type system, serious pedigree.

Martin Odersky's 2004 fusion of object-oriented and functional programming on the JVM. It powered the big-data era through Spark, and Scala 3 cleaned up the language considerably. Steeper learning curve than Java with a higher ceiling

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Teams who want functional-plus-OOP on the JVM, especially for big data with Spark.

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