For those that would prefer a video tutorial, YouTube user ShadowofCatron has posted a series of Scala tutorials introducing the language, functional programming concepts, etc. Part one is ...

Immutable software For example, in regular programming you initialize a variable to some value: x = 1 return x * 2 This will return 2. But the value of the program can change when another programmer ...

And while there’s no shortage of freely available tutorials on Scala, I found Venkat’s writing as well as his examples much more approachable and practical to everyday issues (as opposed to ...

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Scala’s libraries build on this foundation to provide outstanding support for concurrency and parallelism, for example through the actor programming model and the built-in parallel collections ...