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Alind on Feb 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and H...

"Internally they had a lot of people with Ruby and PHP experience, so Scala was appealing. "

Anyone notice this ??? logical?

spullara on Feb 14, 2012 [–]

Scala looks a lot more like Ruby than Java does. It makes people feel more comfortable with the language. Also, a lot of the patterns, like collections, are more similar between Scala and Ruby than Java and Ruby. This will change with JDK 8, but for now it is true.

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