For sequential operations, Scala's iterator almost always equals or exceeds the performance of a Java 8 stream. Thus, one should favor iterator (and its richer set of operations) over seqStream for ...

The inherent problem with procedural programming languages is that they’re not designed for parallel processing. A common language’s typical approach to multithreading is to bolt on an ...

Yammer, which bills itself as the “enterprise social network,” had tapped Scala, a general-purpose, statically typed language on the Java Virtual Machine, for high-performance back-end services.

And since Scala is compiled into Java bytecode, Scala can be run on any Java Virtual Machine, which makes Scala just as ‘cross-platform’ as Java is. But beyond being compatible with Java code, Scala ...

Java records are now part of the language. My RecordBuilder library is still used for some builder sugar. Huge kudos to Gavin Ray for contributing the Java 17 version using Sealed Classes as well as ...

Java remains the top choice for enterprise businesses due to its stability, vast ecosystem, and easy talent availability. Scala offers powerful features for data-heavy and high-concurrency systems, ...

Scala and Java are so closely related that you can use Java packages in Scala programs. But Scala is not nearly as wordy as Java, which is Java’s chief complaint. But is offers more than just brevity.