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ninjazee124 on March 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Will Java 8 Kill Scala?

I used Scala at my previous startup, but for my new startup I decided to build the backend in Java 8. Biggest reasons were the tooling/IDE is just miserable in Scala and the lack of developers in the market. I am really happy with my decision to build our backend with Java 8, quite a joy to write lambda expressions and have the tooling of Java.

Pretty sure I won't be going back to Scala.

mark_l_watson on March 27, 2014 [–]

What are you working on for your new startup?

I think that Java 8 is such a large improvement that I will use Java more often, and use Clojure less often for back ends.

ninjazee124 on April 7, 2014 | [–]

The backend stack is entirely Java 8 built on top of Spring 4 eco system.

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