Scala is a general purpose programming language principally targeting the Java Virtual Machine. Designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way, it fuses both imperative and functional programming styles.
Scala is a general purpose programming language principally targeting the Java Virtual Machine. Designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way, it fuses both imperative and functional programming styles. Its key features are:
- Static typing
- Advanced type system with type inference and declaration-site variance
- Function types (including anonymous) which support lexical closures
- Pattern-matching
- Implicit parameters and conversions which support the typeclass and enrich-my-library patterns
- Mixin composition
- Full interoperability with Java
- Powerful concurrency constructs
- Advanced language constructs such as delimited continuations and an experimental macro system
For more information, see the official Scala Introduction and Scala Documentation.
To search for Scala symbols such as "=>" in Code Review, you can use symbolhound search.
To search Scala documentation, you can use Scalex.
