HN is a cesspool safely ignored.
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Nick Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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: Why Scala? > <http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Why-Scala-tp6536.html> > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive > <http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/> at Nabble.com. >
