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Scala

Website:

www.scala-lang.org

Family: JVM-hosted

Developer: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Programming Methods Laboratory

First appeared: 20 January 2004; 22 years ago

Implementation language: Scala

Platforms: JVM, JavaScript, LLVM

License: Apache 2.0

Filename extensions: .scala, .sc

Scala

Scala is a statically-typed, high-level, general-purpose programming language designed to be concise and fix Java's problems.

Scala code can run on a JVM, transpiled to JavaScript to run on the Web, or compiled directly using Clang.

History

The design of Scala started in 2001 at a public research university, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland by Martin Odersky. After an internal release in 2003, Scala was released publicly in early 2004. A second version was released in March 2006.

Example Code

The following code prints hello world to the terminal window

@main def main() = println("Hello, world!")

References

En Wikipedia Org. (2026). Scala (Programming Language). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language). Retrieved August 7, 2026.

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