Scala
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Key facts
- Paradigm
- Multi-paradigm : concurrent , functional , imperative , object-oriented
- Designed by
- Martin Odersky
- Developer
- Programming Methods Laboratory of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- First appeared
- 20 January 2004 ; 22 years ago ( 2004-01-20 )
- Stable release
- 3.8.3 / 31 March 2026 ; 2 months ago ( 31 March 2026 )
- Typing discipline
- Inferred , static , strong , structural
- Implementation language
- Scala
- Platform
- Java virtual machine (JVM), JavaScript ( Scala.js ), LLVM ( Scala Native ) (experimental)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Filename extensions
- .scala, .sc
- Website
- www .scala-lang .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Scala (/ˈskɑːlɑː/ SKAH-lah) is a strongly statically typed high-level general-purpose programming language that supports both object-oriented programming and functional programming. Designed to be concise, many of Scala's design decisions are intended to address criticisms of Java.
Scala source code can be compiled to Java bytecode and run on a Java virtual machine (JVM). Scala can also be transpiled to JavaScript to run in a browser, or compiled directly to a native executable using Clang. When running on the JVM, Scala provides language interoperability with Java so that libraries written in either language may be referenced directly in Scala or Java code. Like Java, Scala is object-oriented, and uses a syntax termed curly-brace which is similar to the language C. Since Scala 3, there is also an option to use the off-side rule (indenting) to structure blocks, and its use is advised. Martin Odersky has said that this turned out to be the most productive change introduced in Scala 3.
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