boundlessengineering:

Nearly a year-and-a-half ago, Boundless Learning made the decision to use Scala as our backend language for three reasons:

1. Functional programming & static-typing make for better code
2. The robustness of the Java ecosystem
3. The language hiring bias/paradox

Functional Programming & Static Typing

First of many technical blog posts from the team here at Boundless, we hope you’ll follow along!