Evolving Scala(scala-lang.org) Although Scala is no longer riding the wave of hype it had in the mid-2010s, by most surveys the language maintains its position just outside the list of mainstream languages.
Why does Mill use Scala?(mill-build.org) One question that comes up a lot among Mill users is why use Scala as the language
to configure your build? Why not YAML, XML, TOML, Bash, Groovy, Python, Java, or any of the
other hundred programming and configuration languages in widespread use today? Scala
is definitely a niche language, but it also has some unique properties that make it
especially suitable to be used for configuring the build system of a small or large project.
What Scala has to offer for Java devs(softwaremill.com) JVM was introduced in 1994 to run Java programs, but since long ago, it is not the only language you can run on it. There are many other languages leveraging its potential, and Scala is one of them. If you are a Java developer and you have heard or read something about Scala, you might think all it has to offer is some syntactic sugar. In this article, I’ll try to convince you it is much more.