I didn’t think anyone would seriously ask this question. However, after yesterday’s post about why your company should let you use Scala at work, which used a simple example showing the use of lambdas in Scala, I had someone write in the comments:
“java 8 equivalent of your example would be identical, no need for Scala…”
and someone else commented on Twitter:
@evolvable @gbougeard It would be nicer if you’d update the code to use Java 8. Plus I don’t agree, but that’s a different case 😉
— Erik Pragt (@epragt) August 4, 2014
The call to compare against Java 8 is a fair one, so here we go… Continue reading
A colleague and I were writing a test in Java today and I had one of those “I can’t believe it takes this much work to write this stupid function” moments. If you do any Scala programming but still do a lot of Java programming, you’ll know exactly what I mean. I’ll walk you through a mock of what we were doing and you can see why Scala just pummels Java when it comes to expressiveness. (Early warning: do not use the word “expressive” when trying to convince your manager to let you use Scala at work.)