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Expand Up @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ expressions and observing the results. But you can also rely on it
for large mission critical systems, as many companies, including
Twitter, LinkedIn, or Intel do.

To some, Scala feels like a scripting language. It's syntax is concise
and low ceremony; it's types get out of the way because the compiler
To some, Scala feels like a scripting language. Its syntax is concise
and low ceremony; its types get out of the way because the compiler
can infer them. There's a REPL and IDE worksheets for quick
feedback. Developers like it so much that Scala won the ScriptBowl
contest at the 2012 JavaOne conference.
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utilization of multiple cores, and distributed processing in the
cloud.

It's functional nature makes it easier to write safe and performant
Its functional nature makes it easier to write safe and performant
multi-threaded code. There's typically less reliance on mutable state
and Scala's futures and actors provide powerful tools for organizing
concurrent system at a high-level of abstraction.
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