Scala Glossary
Browse 6 scala terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
6 Scala Terms
- Akka
- A toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant applications on the JVM, implementing the actor model with supervision hierarchies,...
- Case Class
- In Scala, a class annotated with the case keyword that automatically generates equals, hashCode, toString, copy, and a companion-object apply method — designed...
- Implicit
- A value, conversion, or behavior that the compiler provides automatically without the programmer explicitly specifying it. In Scala, implicits enable type...
- sbt
- The interactive build tool for Scala and Java projects, providing incremental compilation, dependency management, and a DSL for defining build...
- Scala Community
- The ecosystem of developers, library authors, maintainers, and educators around Scala and its tooling. In JVM culture, the Scala community is known for strong...
- Val
- A keyword in Kotlin, Scala, and Swift that declares an immutable variable binding — once assigned, it cannot be reassigned. The counterpart of var (mutable)....
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