A recent developer survey from Stack Overflow (Stack Exchange Inc.) shows that only 4 percent of professional programmers use the scalable language Scala in their projects. That’s a far cry from the ...

Ammonite, an open source tool to use the Scala language for scripting, should debut in its Version 1.0 production version in next two months. The two-year-old project lets Scala be used for small ...

Scala developers are outpacing Java developers when it comes to microservices adoption, they're embracing cloud-native more strongly, and devs from both camps think containers have enormous potential ...

Typesafe, the chief commercial backer of the open source Scala project, this week released the latest version of the company's software stack. Typesafe Stack 2.0 combines the Scala runtime, the Akka ...

Although proponents of Scala push for its usage in a vast array of situations, adopting a new programming language can just as easily be a path to failure as it can be a path to victory. In some cases ...

Scala developers are inching ahead of Java developers when it comes to microservices and cloud-native apps. But according to a new survey by Lightbend Inc., the main backer of the Scala project, both ...