As a consultancy, we’re always on watch to see what might be the next step forward in the field of software development. I usually find that paying attention to what our developers are playing with provides a good clue. These days, many of them are toying with Scala, and they are eager to try it out on a project. I have challenged them to come up with compelling business reasons to use Scala on a
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