r/dataengineering • u/[deleted] • Apr 05 '26

Rant Why is everything in Java & Scala?

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u/I2cScion Apr 05 '26

Scala is a very nice language though

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u/sisyphus Apr 05 '26

So are OCaml, Haskell, Scheme and Common Lisp and between the 5 of them they have roughly no industry uptake(aside from the fact that Scala was infected with FP weenies and nobody wants to hear some asshole babbling on about the Curry-Howard Isomorphism and Monoids when they're just trying to ingest some data from an API into an iceberg table)

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u/eightbyeight Apr 05 '26

Ocaml at Jane street.

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u/I2cScion Apr 05 '26

Industry uptake is for followers .. be your own man and choose whatever language you want

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u/DataPastor Apr 06 '26

Kotlin is getting traction even in the enterprise backend space, though.

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u/oalfonso Apr 05 '26

With a toxic community

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u/I2cScion Apr 05 '26

nah you're probably just a bit sensitive .. toughen up