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Woa, ya those initial choices for an AI startup seem so wrong. Scala sounds most reasonable, I'd say even consider Java to be honest.

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I honestly don't see a huge value proposition in Scala, now that Java has reduced pain points around FP. Scala has higher-kinded types, but you see people tie themselves in knots with those as often as not. It is just such a huge language.

Scala 3/Dotty sounds like it will be a big improvement.

Java doesn't have one of the fundamentals of typed FP--algebraic data types with exhaustive pattern matching. And just in general--Scala, despite its warts, can be very succinct and packs a lot of power in simple-looking code.

No, sorry. None of the languages I listed are being used at the startup (except node). These are just what I’ve used previously.

Everything is in python but I’m building out the main user-facing app to interface with all the models.

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