Scala, a statically typed language running atop the Java Virtual Machine, is emerging as a development option for building Google Android applications. While developers already are aware of Java and ...

Data scientists have a number of language options, including Python and Java, when planning a production deployment for machine learning solutions in support of a data science projects. More and more ...

In his inaugural Big Data Scala 2015 keynote, Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala, shows how Spark is a logical extension of Scala collections, and in fact a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for ...

The Scala programming language, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has made some inroads into enterprise deployments, but improvements in areas such as tooling will help take it even further, the ...

Python has scaled to the top of the monthly PyPL language popularity index, overtaking Java. Also on the rise, in the rival Tiobe index, is Scala, which has again cracked the index’s Top 20. This ...

Typesafe, a maker of software development tools for the Scala programming language, has raised $3 million in a first round of funding. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company is also introducing today its ...