Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what do they mean?

6 pointsby user124132013 anni fa7 comments

Scalatra? Play? Finagle? Lift?

5 comments

kclay13 anni fa

Well for me It would mean I used Play! The fact that its built on netty (non-blocking io) and is by default async that and its Iteratee and Enumerator makes it real nice for api dev.

Evbn13 anni fa

Poe'd?

This is exactly the buzzword mumbo jumbo that OP was asking to have clarified.

playing_colours13 anni fa

We use Unfiltered. Playframework/Scalatra are also considered as good alternatives.

bschiett13 anni fa

They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.

lutusp13 anni fa

> They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.

The claim "java is a programming language for lamers" is only true if portability isn't important. Portability is important. Android's reliance on Java proves that.

If you had simply said that Java is a sucky, crippled language, I would have agreed.

taf213 anni fa

I'm not sure portability is why android has java as its primary language ... For example http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html

room27113 anni fa

We use Scalatra. It doesn't do too much/get in the way.

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