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Mainly Spark, but it really depends on the domain, what libraries exactly that you'll need, hell I look at what kind of deployment routine the client wants, what their maintenance crew looks like compared to what they want from me.

There is plenty of scala in fintech, I can tell you that. But there's plenty of ocaml, f#, matlab, excel macros, r, kdb, cobol, fortran, c++, a vast array of different technologies.

Most places that choose scala are choosing it over erlang or Java or c#, they USUALLY only choose scala over ocaml if they want to have some old ocaml code talk with new infrastructure that they want built in scala, ime. Because of how performance works and that multi core isn't working yet, ocaml is limited in application if they're willing to find or already have scala programmers.




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