What is Scala and why it is so important?
Okay hi everyone and welcome to this new blog so this blog is about Scala the up-and-coming programming language now while it's not very true that it's up-and-coming because it was actually developed in 2003 it has been gaining a lot of traction in recent years and many developers across different industries are keen to learn it and learn more about it so to get started what is Scala . so it's a general-purpose programming language so the same as Java and Python these are general-purpose languages it was invented by Mr. Martin Erskine and his research team at EPFL in Switzerland in 2003 so like I said developed in 2003 however, it has been gaining popularity in recent years and many say that the term Scala itself represents a scalable language or scaleable itself. So because it's a highly scalable language and we'll get into it in a minute now Scala is said to be a multi-paradigm language now what are programming paradigms so paradigms are essentially like a set of ...