I have found it both interesting and rewarding to learn a new programming language or major framework on a roughly yearly basis. If forced to self-identify with any single programming language, it ...

One more than one occasion, I’ve found myself yearning for a more functional paradigm that facilitates easier concurrency programming on the JVM. Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...

Typesafe, a new startup co-founded by Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala language, launches to enable developers to create cloud and multicore applications in Scala.

For example, in regular programming you initialize a variable to some value: x = 1 return x * 2. This will return 2. But the value of the program can change when another programmer checks out that ...

Scala is a general-purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way, according to the Scala language Website. It smoothly ...

Assembly language provides fine grain control. But it’s rarely used these days, with the exception of some operating-system hackers or 8-bit embedded programmers working on small ...

Scala is not among the most popular programming languages but soon this could change. With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their ...

The Scala programming language, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has made some inroads into enterprise deployments, but improvements in areas such as tooling will help take it even further ...