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Alternatives to Scala

Kotlin, Python, Clojure, Java, and Golang are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Scala.
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What is Scala and what are its top alternatives?

Scala is an acronym for “Scalable Language”. This means that Scala grows with you. You can play with it by typing one-line 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. Its syntax is concise and low ceremony; its types get out of the way because the compiler can infer them.
Scala is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Scala is an open source tool with 14K GitHub stars and 3.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Scala's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Scala

  • Kotlin
    Kotlin

    Kotlin is a statically typed programming language for the JVM, Android and the browser, 100% interoperable with Java ...

  • Python
    Python

    Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best. ...

  • Clojure
    Clojure

    Clojure is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. ...

  • Java
    Java

    Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere! ...

  • Golang
    Golang

    Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. ...

  • Apache Spark
    Apache Spark

    Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning. ...

  • Haskell
    Haskell

    It is a general purpose language that can be used in any domain and use case, it is ideally suited for proprietary business logic and data analysis, fast prototyping and enhancing existing software environments with correct code, performance and scalability. ...

  • Groovy
    Groovy

    It is a powerful multi-faceted programming language for the JVM platform. It supports a spectrum of programming styles incorporating features from dynamic languages such as optional and duck typing, but also static compilation and static type checking at levels similar to or greater than Java through its extensible static type checker. It aims to greatly increase developer productivity with many powerful features but also a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. ...

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Kotlin

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    Interoperable with Java
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    Functional Programming support
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    Null Safety
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    Official Android support
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    Backed by JetBrains
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    Concise
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    Modern Multiplatform Applications
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    Expressive Syntax
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    Target to JVM
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    Coroutines
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    Open Source
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    Practical elegance
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    Statically Typed
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    Android support
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    Type Inference
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    Readable code
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    Better Java
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    Powerful as Scala, simple as Python, plus coroutines <3
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    Pragmatic
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    Lambda
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    Better language for android
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    Expressive DSLs
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    Target to JavaScript
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    Used for Android
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    Less boilerplate code
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    Fast Programming language
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    Less code
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    Functional Programming Language
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    Friendly community
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    Less boiler plate code
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    Native
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    Official Google Support
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    Spring
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    Latest version of Java
CONS OF KOTLIN
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    Java interop makes users write Java in Kotlin
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    Frequent use of {} keys
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    Hard to make teams adopt the Kotlin style
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    Nonullpointer Exception
  • 1
    Friendly community
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    Slow compiler
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    No boiler plate code

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Shivam Bhargava
AVP - Business at VAYUZ Technologies Pvt. Ltd. · | 22 upvotes · 491.3K views

Hi Community! Trust everyone is keeping safe. I am exploring the idea of building a #Neobank (App) with end-to-end banking capabilities. In the process of exploring this space, I have come across multiple Apps (N26, Revolut, Monese, etc) and explored their stacks in detail. The confusion remains to be the Backend Tech to be used?

What would you go with considering all of the languages such as Node.js Java Rails Python are suggested by some person or the other. As a general trend, I have noticed the usage of Node with React on the front or Node with a combination of Kotlin and Swift. Please suggest what would be the right approach!

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Jakub Olan
Node.js Software Engineer · | 17 upvotes · 411.4K views

In our company we have think a lot about languages that we're willing to use, there we have considering Java, Python and C++ . All of there languages are old and well developed at fact but that's not ideology of araclx. We've choose a edge technologies such as Node.js , Rust , Kotlin and Go as our programming languages which is some kind of fun. Node.js is one of biggest trends of 2019, same for Go. We want to grow in our company with growth of languages we have choose, and probably when we would choose Java that would be almost impossible because larger languages move on today's market slower, and cannot have big changes.

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Python

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    Great libraries
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    Readable code
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    Beautiful code
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    Rapid development
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    Large community
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    Open source
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    Elegant
  • 278
    Great community
  • 268
    Object oriented
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    Dynamic typing
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    Great standard library
  • 56
    Very fast
  • 51
    Functional programming
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    Scientific computing
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    Easy to learn
  • 33
    Great documentation
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    Matlab alternative
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    Productivity
  • 25
    Easy to read
  • 21
    Simple is better than complex
  • 18
    It's the way I think
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    Imperative
  • 15
    Free
  • 15
    Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
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    Powerful
  • 14
    Machine learning support
  • 14
    Powerfull language
  • 13
    Fast and simple
  • 12
    Scripting
  • 9
    Explicit is better than implicit
  • 8
    Clear and easy and powerfull
  • 8
    Ease of development
  • 8
    Unlimited power
  • 7
    Import antigravity
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    It's lean and fun to code
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    Print "life is short, use python"
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    Python has great libraries for data processing
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    Fast coding and good for competitions
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    There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
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    High Documented language
  • 5
    I love snakes
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    Although practicality beats purity
  • 5
    Flat is better than nested
  • 5
    Great for tooling
  • 4
    Readability counts
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    Rapid Prototyping
  • 3
    Web scraping
  • 3
    Plotting
  • 3
    Multiple Inheritence
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    Complex is better than complicated
  • 3
    Beautiful is better than ugly
  • 3
    Now is better than never
  • 3
    Lists, tuples, dictionaries
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    Socially engaged community
  • 3
    Great for analytics
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    CG industry needs
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    Generators
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    Simple and easy to learn
  • 2
    Import this
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    No cruft
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    Easy to learn and use
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    List comprehensions
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    Pip install everything
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    Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
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    If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
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    If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
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    Easy to setup and run smooth
  • 2
    Many types of collections
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    Flexible and easy
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    Powerful language for AI
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    Shitty
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    It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
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    Batteries included
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    Can understand easily who are new to programming
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    Should START with this but not STICK with This
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    A-to-Z
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    Only one way to do it
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    Because of Netflix
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    Better outcome
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    Good for hacking
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    Powerful
CONS OF PYTHON
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    Still divided between python 2 and python 3
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    Performance impact
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    Poor syntax for anonymous functions
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    GIL
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    Package management is a mess
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    Too imperative-oriented
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    Hard to understand
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    Dynamic typing
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    Very slow
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    Not everything is expression
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    Indentations matter a lot
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    Explicit self parameter in methods
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    Incredibly slow
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    Requires C functions for dynamic modules
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    Poor DSL capabilities
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    No anonymous functions
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    Official documentation is unclear.
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    The "lisp style" whitespaces
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    Fake object-oriented programming
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    Hard to obfuscate
  • 5
    Threading
  • 4
    Circular import
  • 4
    The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
  • 4
    Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
  • 4
    Not suitable for autocomplete
  • 2
    Meta classes
  • 1
    Training wheels (forced indentation)

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 42 upvotes · 6M views

How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

(GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark

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Nick Parsons
Building cool things on the internet 🛠️ at Stream · | 35 upvotes · 1.8M views

Winds 2.0 is an open source Podcast/RSS reader developed by Stream with a core goal to enable a wide range of developers to contribute.

We chose JavaScript because nearly every developer knows or can, at the very least, read JavaScript. With ES6 and Node.js v10.x.x, it’s become a very capable language. Async/Await is powerful and easy to use (Async/Await vs Promises). Babel allows us to experiment with next-generation JavaScript (features that are not in the official JavaScript spec yet). Yarn allows us to consistently install packages quickly (and is filled with tons of new tricks)

We’re using JavaScript for everything – both front and backend. Most of our team is experienced with Go and Python, so Node was not an obvious choice for this app.

Sure... there will be haters who refuse to acknowledge that there is anything remotely positive about JavaScript (there are even rants on Hacker News about Node.js); however, without writing completely in JavaScript, we would not have seen the results we did.

#FrameworksFullStack #Languages

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PROS OF CLOJURE
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    It is a lisp
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    Persistent data structures
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    Concise syntax
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    jvm-based language
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    Concurrency
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    Interactive repl
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    Code is data
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    Lazy data structures
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    Open source
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    Macros
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    Functional
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    Simplistic
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    Immutable by default
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    Excellent collections
  • 18
    Fast-growing community
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    Multiple host languages
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    Practical Lisp
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    Simple (not easy!)
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    Addictive
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    Community
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    Because it's really fun to use
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    Web friendly
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    Rapid development
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    It creates Reusable code
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    Minimalist
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    Java interop
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    Programmable programming language
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    Regained interest in programming
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    Compiles to JavaScript
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    EDN
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    Share a lot of code with clojurescript/use on frontend
CONS OF CLOJURE
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    Cryptic stacktraces
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    Need to wrap basically every java lib
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    Toxic community
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    Good code heavily relies on local conventions
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    Slow application startup
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    Tonns of abandonware
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    Usable only with REPL
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    Hiring issues
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    Bad documented libs
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    Macros are overused by devs
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    Tricky profiling
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    IDE with high learning curve
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    Configuration bolierplate
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    Conservative community
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    Have no good and fast fmt

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Stitch is run entirely on AWS. All of our transactional databases are run with Amazon RDS, and we rely on Amazon S3 for data persistence in various stages of our pipeline. Our product integrates with Amazon Redshift as a data destination, and we also use Redshift as an internal data warehouse (powered by Stitch, of course).

The majority of our services run on stateless Amazon EC2 instances that are managed by AWS OpsWorks. We recently introduced Kubernetes into our infrastructure to run the scheduled jobs that execute Singer code to extract data from various sources. Although we tend to be wary of shiny new toys, Kubernetes has proven to be a good fit for this problem, and its stability, strong community and helpful tooling have made it easy for us to incorporate into our operations.

While we continue to be happy with Clojure for our internal services, we felt that its relatively narrow adoption could impede Singer's growth. We chose Python both because it is well suited to the task, and it seems to have reached critical mass among data engineers. All that being said, the Singer spec is language agnostic, and integrations and libraries have been developed in JavaScript, Go, and Clojure.

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I adopted Clojure and ClojureScript because:

  • it's 1 language, multiple platforms.
  • Simple syntax.
  • Designed to avoid unwanted side effects and bugs.
  • Immutable data-structures.
  • Compact code, very expressive.
  • Source code is data.
  • It has super-flexible macro.
  • Has metadata.
  • Interoperability with JavaScript, Java and C#.
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Java

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A concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, language specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
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    Great libraries
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    Widely used
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    Excellent tooling
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    Huge amount of documentation available
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    Large pool of developers available
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    Open source
  • 201
    Excellent performance
  • 155
    Great development
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    Vast array of 3rd party libraries
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    Used for android
  • 60
    Compiled Language
  • 51
    Used for Web
  • 46
    Managed memory
  • 45
    High Performance
  • 44
    Native threads
  • 43
    Statically typed
  • 35
    Easy to read
  • 33
    Great Community
  • 29
    Reliable platform
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    Sturdy garbage collection
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    JVM compatibility
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    Cross Platform Enterprise Integration
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    Universal platform
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    Good amount of APIs
  • 18
    Great Support
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    Great ecosystem
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    Backward compatible
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    Lots of boilerplate
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    Everywhere
  • 9
    Excellent SDK - JDK
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    Cross-platform
  • 7
    It's Java
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    Static typing
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    Portability
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    Long term language
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    Better than Ruby
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    Mature language thus stable systems
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    Vast Collections Library
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    Clojure
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    Used for Android development
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    Most developers favorite
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    Old tech
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    Testable
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    History
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    Stable platform, which many new languages depend on
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    Great Structure
  • 3
    Javadoc
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    Best martial for design
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    Type Safe
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    Faster than python
CONS OF JAVA
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    Verbosity
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    NullpointerException
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    Nightmare to Write
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    Overcomplexity is praised in community culture
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    Boiler plate code
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    Classpath hell prior to Java 9
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    No REPL
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    No property
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    Code are too long
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    Non-intuitive generic implementation
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    There is not optional parameter
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    Floating-point errors
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    Java's too statically, stronglly, and strictly typed
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    Returning Wildcard Types
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    Terrbible compared to Python/Batch Perormence

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 42 upvotes · 6M views

How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

(GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark

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Kamil Kowalski
Lead Architect at Fresha · | 28 upvotes · 1.9M views

When you think about test automation, it’s crucial to make it everyone’s responsibility (not just QA Engineers'). We started with Selenium and Java, but with our platform revolving around Ruby, Elixir and JavaScript, QA Engineers were left alone to automate tests. Cypress was the answer, as we could switch to JS and simply involve more people from day one. There's a downside too, as it meant testing on Chrome only, but that was "good enough" for us + if really needed we can always cover some specific cases in a different way.

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Golang

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    High-performance
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    Simple, minimal syntax
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    Fun to write
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    Easy concurrency support via goroutines
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    Fast compilation times
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    Goroutines
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    Statically linked binaries that are simple to deploy
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    Simple compile build/run procedures
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    Backed by google
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    Great community
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    Garbage collection built-in
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    Built-in Testing
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    Excellent tools - gofmt, godoc etc
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    Elegant and concise like Python, fast like C
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    Awesome to Develop
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    Used for Docker
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    Flexible interface system
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    Deploy as executable
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    Great concurrency pattern
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    Open-source Integration
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    Fun to write and so many feature out of the box
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    Easy to read
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    Go is God
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    Its Simple and Heavy duty
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    Powerful and simple
  • 14
    Easy to deploy
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    Best language for concurrency
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    Concurrency
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    Rich standard library
  • 11
    Safe GOTOs
  • 10
    Clean code, high performance
  • 10
    Easy setup
  • 9
    Simplicity, Concurrency, Performance
  • 9
    High performance
  • 8
    Hassle free deployment
  • 8
    Single binary avoids library dependency issues
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    Simple, powerful, and great performance
  • 7
    Cross compiling
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    Used by Giants of the industry
  • 6
    Gofmt
  • 6
    Garbage Collection
  • 5
    Very sophisticated syntax
  • 5
    Excellent tooling
  • 5
    WYSIWYG
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    Keep it simple and stupid
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    Widely used
  • 4
    Kubernetes written on Go
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    No generics
  • 1
    Operator goto
CONS OF GOLANG
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    You waste time in plumbing code catching errors
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    Verbose
  • 23
    Packages and their path dependencies are braindead
  • 15
    Dependency management when working on multiple projects
  • 15
    Google's documentations aren't beginer friendly
  • 10
    Automatic garbage collection overheads
  • 8
    Uncommon syntax
  • 6
    Type system is lacking (no generics, etc)
  • 3
    Collection framework is lacking (list, set, map)
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    Best programming language

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 42 upvotes · 6M views

How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

(GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark

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Nick Parsons
Building cool things on the internet 🛠️ at Stream · | 35 upvotes · 1.8M views

Winds 2.0 is an open source Podcast/RSS reader developed by Stream with a core goal to enable a wide range of developers to contribute.

We chose JavaScript because nearly every developer knows or can, at the very least, read JavaScript. With ES6 and Node.js v10.x.x, it’s become a very capable language. Async/Await is powerful and easy to use (Async/Await vs Promises). Babel allows us to experiment with next-generation JavaScript (features that are not in the official JavaScript spec yet). Yarn allows us to consistently install packages quickly (and is filled with tons of new tricks)

We’re using JavaScript for everything – both front and backend. Most of our team is experienced with Go and Python, so Node was not an obvious choice for this app.

Sure... there will be haters who refuse to acknowledge that there is anything remotely positive about JavaScript (there are even rants on Hacker News about Node.js); however, without writing completely in JavaScript, we would not have seen the results we did.

#FrameworksFullStack #Languages

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Apache Spark

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    Open-source
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    Fast and Flexible
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    Great for distributed SQL like applications
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    One platform for every big data problem
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    Easy to install and to use
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    Works well for most Datascience usecases
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    In memory Computation
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    Interactive Query
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    Machine learning libratimery, Streaming in real
CONS OF APACHE SPARK
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Eric Colson
Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix · | 21 upvotes · 2.7M views

The algorithms and data infrastructure at Stitch Fix is housed in #AWS. Data acquisition is split between events flowing through Kafka, and periodic snapshots of PostgreSQL DBs. We store data in an Amazon S3 based data warehouse. Apache Spark on Yarn is our tool of choice for data movement and #ETL. Because our storage layer (s3) is decoupled from our processing layer, we are able to scale our compute environment very elastically. We have several semi-permanent, autoscaling Yarn clusters running to serve our data processing needs. While the bulk of our compute infrastructure is dedicated to algorithmic processing, we also implemented Presto for adhoc queries and dashboards.

Beyond data movement and ETL, most #ML centric jobs (e.g. model training and execution) run in a similarly elastic environment as containers running Python and R code on Amazon EC2 Container Service clusters. The execution of batch jobs on top of ECS is managed by Flotilla, a service we built in house and open sourced (see https://github.com/stitchfix/flotilla-os).

At Stitch Fix, algorithmic integrations are pervasive across the business. We have dozens of data products actively integrated systems. That requires serving layer that is robust, agile, flexible, and allows for self-service. Models produced on Flotilla are packaged for deployment in production using Khan, another framework we've developed internally. Khan provides our data scientists the ability to quickly productionize those models they've developed with open source frameworks in Python 3 (e.g. PyTorch, sklearn), by automatically packaging them as Docker containers and deploying to Amazon ECS. This provides our data scientist a one-click method of getting from their algorithms to production. We then integrate those deployments into a service mesh, which allows us to A/B test various implementations in our product.

For more info:

#DataScience #DataStack #Data

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 7 upvotes · 1.3M views

Why we built Marmaray, an open source generic data ingestion and dispersal framework and library for Apache Hadoop :

Built and designed by our Hadoop Platform team, Marmaray is a plug-in-based framework built on top of the Hadoop ecosystem. Users can add support to ingest data from any source and disperse to any sink leveraging the use of Apache Spark . The name, Marmaray, comes from a tunnel in Turkey connecting Europe and Asia. Similarly, we envisioned Marmaray within Uber as a pipeline connecting data from any source to any sink depending on customer preference:

https://eng.uber.com/marmaray-hadoop-ingestion-open-source/

(Direct GitHub repo: https://github.com/uber/marmaray Kafka Kafka Manager )

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Why I am using Haskell in my free time?

I have 3 reasons for it. I am looking for:

Fun.

Improve functional programming skill.

Improve problem-solving skill.

Laziness and mathematical abstractions behind Haskell makes it a wonderful language.

It is Pure functional, it helps me to write better Scala code.

Highly expressive language gives elegant ways to solve coding puzzle.

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Presently, a web-based ERP is developed in Groovy on Grails. Now the ERP is getting revamped with more functionalities. Is it advisable to continue with the same software and framework or try something new especially Node.js over ExpressJS?

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