Modern and powerful programming language invented in Switzerland. Scala has full support for functional programming and a very strong static type system. Designed to be concise, many of Scala's design decisions were inspired by criticism of the shortcomings of Java.
|Developed by||Martin Odersky|
|Latest stable version||2|
Scala source code is intended to be compiled to Java bytecode, so that the resulting executable code runs on a Java virtual machine.