The advantages of Scala
Although Scala is still a language on the rise that has yet to receive the wide-scale adoption of a language such as Java, its support for concurrent programming is rich and powerful. Concurrency frameworks for nearly all the different styles of concurrent programming exist in the Scala ecosystem, and are being actively developed. Throughout its development, Scala has pushed the boundaries when it comes to providing modern, high-level application programming interfaces or APIs for concurrent programming. There are many reasons for this.
The primary reason that so many modern concurrency frameworks have found their way into Scala is its inherent syntactic flexibility. Thanks to features such as first-class functions, by-name ...
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