I recently discovered Hacker News and started reading through older posts about Scala <https://hn.algolia.com/?q=scala#!/story/forever/0/scala>. It looks like the language is fairly controversial on there, and it got me thinking.
Scala appears to be the preferred language to work with in Spark, and Spark itself is written in Scala, right? I know that often times a successful project evolves gradually out of something small, and that the choice of programming language may not always have been made consciously at the outset. But pretending that it was, why is Scala the preferred language of Spark? Nick -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Why-Scala-tp6536.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
