Scala Recognition Continues to Grow

Two years ago, a java.net poll asked Have you tried Scala? At that time, 38% of respondants had no idea what Scala was. This past week's java.net poll suggests that recognition of Scala has grown considerably in the past two years. A total of 416 votes were cast in the poll. The exact question and results were: What's your view of Scala's future? 17% (72 votes) - Scala will become a widely used mainstream language 27% (112 votes) - Scala will have a devoted user community long into the future 19% (79 votes) - Scala will never see widespread use 12% (50 votes) - I won't know until I try out Scala (which I plan to do) 11% (46 votes) - I don't know 14% (57 votes) - What's Scala? In one sense, you could say that these numbers (remembering, though, that this is not a scientific poll) indicate that Scala has succeeded as a language: about half of the people who know what Scala is believe it's going to be around for a long time into the future, either as a language with a devoted core of users or as a widely-used mainstream language. If these results reflect the views of the broader developer community, Scala will likely end up having been much more than a mere blip when the history of programming languages is told decades from now. And why not? Scala translates to Java bytecodes and it also compiles to .NET. That's a pretty powerful, flexible feature. Furthermore: "Code sizes are typic...

Date: March, 12 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/03/12/scala-recognition-continues-grow

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