How suitable is Scala as a language for the web?

Question

Java

I really like Scala as a language, but I have a question. Without experience in the office, being a rock girl, is it worth it to go freelancing/remote work at all? And is there any work / orders for some web applications, and not writing a second twitter?

Answer 1

There is little work on the rock, but there are even fewer specialists, so there is not much competition there. Therefore, you can find a job.

Answer 2

According to my subjective observations, most of the vacancies in Scala are just yesterday's Ruby shops that are working on the Play Framework, and, of course, everything related to BigData and Spark.
On the first question - of course it is suitable, although it may not yet be for freelancing.
There was a nice SlideShare presentation comparing Play 2 and Rails:
www.slideshare.net/danicuki/play-vs-rails
And a more provocative one from a SoundCloud engineer on the same topic:
www.slideshare.net/pcalcado/from-a- monolithic ruby...

Answer 3

If you have solid java experience and knowledge of Scala, albeit without real work experience, you will be of interest to many employers. I won’t say specifically for the web, especially freelancing, but vacancies where a little experience in Scala is acceptable, with good development experience using java, come across quite often (among all Scala-related vacancies)