Is Scala, which was designed only a short while ago (comparatively speaking, that is) poised for stardom? Or will Clojure achieve greatness instead? There are a number of complementary aspects that ...

Using the Java programming language, developers have difficulty making Java applications scale linearly. Beyond the initial handful of processors, every time you add a new processor to your system, ...

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We challenged our developers to learn Clojure, Scala, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Kotlin, and Go in a day. Here's how easy it is to make the switch Much of today’s buzz is about alternative programming ...

Another JVM language, Haskell dialect Eta, has arrived on the scene, again centering on functional programming. Intended for building scalable systems, Eta is a strongly typed functional language.