A Scala Tutorial for Java Programmers

[shawndumas]

http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/scala-for-java-programmers.html

[greesil]

I just got interested in scala because of this:

http://spark-project.org/

Has anybody tried spark out? What did you think? I'm kind of afraid of using it for production because it is so new.

[eropple → greesil]

I've played with it briefly, and found it okay. It didn't really fit my needs, but the code quality (on a cursory audit) seemed reasonable; it looked to be heavily leveraging Akka to do a lot of the hard work. Not a criticism--Akka is awesome--but it means they have generally less code that they have to worry about directly.

[stesch → greesil]

Really a bad name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_%28programming_language%2...

[eropple → stesch]

There's also a Spark Java web framework, too. Common name.