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Are they trying to make Scala look more complicated than the other languages on purpose? The Scala example f"$x%d plus $y%d equals ${x + y}%d" could be written simply as s"$x plus $y equals ${x + y}"

It's funny too because the Scala ecosystem has had safe string interpolation for years. e.g. with Slick sql"SELECT * FROM Person p WHERE p.last_name = $lastName" will produce a parameterized query/prepared statement that you can run, and it does this at compile time so runtime injection like log4shell is impossible.

One of the best application I've seen is structured and contextual logging [1]. Combined with implicits, this allows you to require a right renderer or/and automatically get a current state of an execution context.

1. https://docs.tofu.tf/docs/tofu.logging.key-features/

Yes, Java is legit scared of Scala's rising popularity.

If anything Java is becoming groovy. Almost all features adopted are groovy features.

Is Scala rising? It used to be hyped a ton back in the earlier Twitter days, about 10 years ago, but since then, everything has been quiet.

If anything, Kotlin is probably ahead of Scala now, adoption wise.

Wait. Did we just get teleported back to 2018?

Sarcasm carries poorly over text :)

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