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Downloads of Scala plugin for IntelliJ rocket upwards 1 Nov 2012 | 12:54 am
JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDE (http://www.jetbrains.com/) is widely regarded as the best dev. environment for Scala. I’ve been very happy with the combination of the Apache-licensed free version of IntelliJ...
Language benchmark results mapped to car types 4 Oct 2012 | 02:34 am
Just for fun I’ve mapped the programming language benchmark results from http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ onto makes of car. The images below are selected based on the execution time of the benchmar...
Turbocharge your Scala code by using scala.collection.JavaConversions 29 Jul 2012 | 08:46 pm
As noted in a previous blog post, Scala’s mutable map class is currently significantly less efficient than the corresponding HashMap class that ships with the JDK. The good news is that Scala makes it...
Scala adoption continues to climb rapidly 30 May 2012 | 09:02 am
Various measures have been proposed for tracking the popularity of languages. Measuring the adoption of a programming language is an inexact science, but key indicators (job ads, stack overflow tags, ...
Scala adoption continues to climb rapidly 30 May 2012 | 05:02 am
Various measures have been proposed for tracking the popularity of languages. Measuring the adoption of a programming language is an inexact science, but key indicators (job adverts, stack overflow ta...
Scala books being published at quite a rate 6 May 2012 | 09:07 pm
Since it emerged that Twitter was using Scala the number of books on the subject has risen dramatically. Today there are no fewer than 14 books either published or about to be published on the topic o...
Real world feedback from a Java dev using Scala 2 May 2012 | 04:28 am
It’s no secret that a large proportion of Scala programmers originate from the Java developer community. I’ve been writing Java code since the late 90′s and have recently starting doing some dev work ...
Spellchecker in Scala vs Kotlin 16 Apr 2012 | 05:41 am
Recently code for a spellchecker in Kotlin was posted on a blog. What is interesting about the code is that it can almost be converted to Scala using only find and replace (“fun” -> “def”, “<” -> “[",...
Language popularity: It’s not about search engine result counts 10 Apr 2012 | 09:00 am
Recently there has been a lot of noise about the Tiobe index in which search engine result counts are compared for various programming languages. Looking at search engine results is an approximate, bu...
New Scala books 9 Apr 2012 | 05:07 am
One of the signs of a healthy language is the large number of books written on the subject. Last month saw the release of Scala for the Impatient, an excellent introduction to the language for program...
