Because there are so many potential opportunity costs associated with learning a new programming language, I try to be careful about which I invest my time in. I typically have a compelling reason ...

Scala is also a functional programming language with both higher order functions and first-class functions. Immutability rules are relaxed in Scala, which eases multithreaded processes. Scala also ...

For more, take a look at Programming in Scala by the language’s designer, Martin Odersky. See ED Online 18173 at www.electronicdesign.com for my review of the book.

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.

Tiobe Top 10 programming languages The top 10 languages for TIobe in April 2018 were: Java, at 16.38 percent C, at 14 percent C++, at 7.668 percent Python, at 5.192 C#, at 4.402 percent ...