Scala
Object-oriented meets functional on the JVM, the language of Spark and Akka. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- EPFL and the Scala Center
- Created by
- Martin Odersky
- First release
- 2004
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.scala-lang.org
- Paradigms
- Object-oriented, Functional
- Typing
- Static
- Type strength
- Strong
- Type inference
- Yes
- Memory management
- Garbage collected
- Runs as
- Bytecode on a virtual machine
- Main implementation
- Scala 3 compiler on the JVM
- Concurrency
- Futures, actors, effect systems
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- sbt, Mill
- Used for
- Back end, Data and AI
- Specification
- None, the compiler is the reference