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Any Love For Scala Around Here? by robby1(m): 1:11am On Feb 20, 2015 |
Coming from a Java background, I was lured into a new scala developer role which I took in November. So far I've been loving it. I wish I had played a bit more with it in the past. So I'm wondering, what's the feeling towards scala here? What do you like/dislike about scala? |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by GodMode: 4:36am On Feb 20, 2015 |
No... It doesn't put money in people's pockets... 1 Like |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 9:32am On Feb 20, 2015 |
GodMode am curious how did you come about this fact, no developer would utter such words, you do know you can work remotely from here abroad incase you are thinking only about the local confines of Nigeria. they are other languages apart PHP out there which earn money. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 9:35am On Feb 20, 2015 |
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Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by GodMode: 9:41am On Feb 20, 2015 |
pcguru1: U call CMS made with php crap.... I work from home in Nigeria... No language can earn coders as much as Java, php, Js and html/css in Nigeria. Those are the languages to learn no matter what part of the world the programmer lives... |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 9:55am On Feb 20, 2015 |
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Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by robby1(m): 9:56am On Feb 20, 2015 |
GodMode: GodMode: You can do everything you can do with php. At the moment I'm working on a web application with it. You should look up "Play! Framework". If your motivation for learning a language is simply how much you can make, then this is even more reason to adopt scala as there aren't a lot of scala developers so you can make some dough from supporting the website.. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 9:59am On Feb 20, 2015 |
robby1:Word 1 Like |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by GodMode: 9:59am On Feb 20, 2015 |
pcguru1: You use impressPages(PHP CMS) for your site. Php is the same anywhere... There's nothing wrong with wordpress. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by GodMode: 10:03am On Feb 20, 2015 |
robby1: the amount of scala programmers does not matter... I don't know a thing about scala but what I know is that the language doesn't have the market that those languages have. Its about the market and what people are interested in buying ![]() |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 10:05am On Feb 20, 2015 |
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Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 10:09am On Feb 20, 2015 |
GodMode: that's because your knowledge of the market is limited, walk into any Enterprise organization in Nigeria and find out what they use most are either java/.NET either ASP.NET MVC or (Spring/Structs/Grails/Magnolia) the list is long, Oracle,NHibernate,Hibernate PHP is just used for their front public sites. maybe till when PHP can handle async processes is it even possible to create Thread in PHP ? |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by GodMode: 10:10am On Feb 20, 2015 |
pcguru1: That's your opinion... I mean the site in your signature uses impressPages.. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 10:11am On Feb 20, 2015 |
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Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 10:12am On Feb 20, 2015 |
GodMode: Not anymore i migrated them to Processwire. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by GodMode: 10:14am On Feb 20, 2015 |
pcguru1: You can create threads in php... What organisations ![]() Konga uses magento(PHP).. That's your opinion of the "market you know"... The "market I know" has nothing to do with organisations.. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by GodMode: 10:16am On Feb 20, 2015 |
pcguru1: I focus on only wordpress.. I don't bother myself about other CMS. Wordpress is object oriented. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 10:18am On Feb 20, 2015 |
sorry op ![]() |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by robby1(m): 2:18pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
GodMode: Well, people don't pay for programming languages. You get paid for what you can deliver with your knowledge. If you are talking about getting jobs in Scala, then I'll agree that it might be a bit challenging. But be rest assured, if a company wants to hire you to program in Scala, they'll be willing to pay a lot. On the other hand, if the client is specifying a language for me to build a freelance project, I'll be worried cos it would seem to me that they want to give it to someone else to support so I wont be able to get support and maintenance fees. pcguru1: GodMode:Also, maybe I should also mention that though there are libraries that will make it easier to do so with Scala if you so wish Scala doesn't require you to relearn html, css and javascript. Scala is just the back end bit for your server side code. i.e. PHP -> HTML -> CSS -> JavaScript Scala -> HTML -> CSS -> JavaScript So, really, it's up to one to learn what they think will benefit them the most, but if I may say, you will maintain relevance in the market and gain a reputation if you stay ahead of the curve by moving away from saturation. Scala is one language that will help you achieve this. pcguru1: That's right. Scala has been called Java on steroids. It's both functional and object oriented and it runs on the jvm. It's getting very popular in enterprise because of its functional nature and the fact that you can write less code to do more... |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by GodMode: 2:32pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
robby1: That's your opinion... You know what you want and I know what I want. I know of php programmers that earn at least $1million dollars annually "WORKING FROM HOME". But I don't know of any Scala programmer who makes that much annually "from home". |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 2:51pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
GodMode: Yeah programmers make money regardless of the language, its all about the solution not really the language |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 2:53pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
robby1: Care to share any scala resources so we can look and read I just hope its not like Struct, my colleague codes with that in the office and so much configuration of XML just to adjust logic very very scary something. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by GodMode: 2:54pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
pcguru1: True |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 2:58pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
These Days there's no such thing as PHP,Scala,Java Developer in my office you are a Developer first, today you can be on a PHP Project tomorrow you get your azz deployed on a Grails project. Despite working with java and .NET most of my jobs for PHP are all in PHP. So which is even why i believe every *software developer* should try as much language if possible you never know what you might pick up. PHP brings money for me because it has the easiest hosting and the barrier to entry is low. I can't imagine an entrepreneur trying to use Java for a small business maybe its when it gets bigger that certain plans come into plan. However PHP applications these days are not used alone, e.g Konga uses PHP (assumption) but I know they use it with ActiveMQ (Java). A former firm i worked with uses a PHP E-commerce solution I remember when i was asked to integrate it with Elastic Search (Java). Even Facebook PHP is a different beast from the PHP we all use. tech is quite fun |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by robby1(m): 3:00pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
GodMode: That's cool. Php is a good language for its purpose. I was wondering what other people felt about Scala. Thanks for your insight. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by Nobody: 3:09pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
robby1:you won't find much luck about info on languages from developers here, the best is to join LinkedIn Groups or Scala forums. |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by robby1(m): 3:30pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
Yeah I'm on a few groups in Linked in. There was a conference held recently where the guy that designed the language (Martin Odersky) came and spoke about his plans for Scala in the future. I was hoping to find out from programmers in Nigeria, what the general feeling is towards Scala and to see if anyone uses it for work or freelance. pcguru1:I don't know much about struct. Scala is not very difficult. The learning curve is a bit steep if you haven't done much functional programming and you want to do that with it, but you can still do OO stuff quite easily to sort of ease yourself into the language. Then when you're more comfortable, you can try out the functional paradigm. If you want to learn, the course is open and free on coursera. You'll learn from Martin himself. He goes relatively deep into functional programming concepts. You can watch the videos from the previous session he ran last year but if you want, you could sign up for another one starting in april and for that, you can earn a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun For web development, check out https://www.playframework.com/. and http://typesafe.com/products/typesafe-reactive-platform Here's a fun way to learn: http://scalatron.github.io/. Its a game that you can play with friends. Build your own robots and give it some logic to compete with your friends robots, if you like that sort of thing. Scala Enthusiasts on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Scala-enthusiasts-746917 |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by mrdino(m): 10:07pm On Feb 21, 2015 |
pcguru1:bro to answer ur question it very possible to create thread in php, for further reading u may check d online php manual at : http://php.net/manual/en/thread.start.php |
Re: Any Love For Scala Around Here? by toxxnoni(m): 6:07pm On Sep 18, 2020 |
robby1: I want to learn Scala. Kindly help a brother |
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