In a blog post this past spring, Burns touted Scala’s programming characteristics: “Scala can be thought of as a better Java. To start with, you don’t need as many semicolons.

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 ...

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 ...

With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

Programming languages: Go, Scala and Ruby most wanted, Python and JavaScript most used Software developers with Go skills got the most interview requests thanks to their in-demand skills, says Hired.

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 ...

A number of languages, especially functional programming languages, are waiting in the wings to be the next great C# or Java replacement— or at least an alternative. One of these is called Scala.

Scala, a functional language suitable for parallel programming, has already been used in financial institutions and high-traffic Internet sites such as the Foursquare social network, Odersky said ...

Stack Overflow surveyed over 73,000 developers to find the highest-paying programming languages, including Clojure, Elixir, and Scala.

Scala, a statically typed language running atop the Java Virtual Machine, is emerging as a development option for building Google Android applications. While developers already are aware of Java ...