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What's your favorite programming language and what about it do you like? (reddthat.com)

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very few people use Scala. I think it's used in some data transformation pipelines and that's it....

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a good number of companies that use it. Off the top of my head, Twitter, databricks, hopper and tubi TV all use it.

[–] kabat@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah very common in Spark world, but haven't seen it used much elsewhere.