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Developed byMartin Odersky
Maintained byLightbend
Founded2003
LicenseApache License 2.0
Open source✓ Open Source
Use casefunctional and object-oriented programming
Technical
API compatible
Java
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Alternative to
Java
Competes with
Kotlin
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Scala

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Functional and object-oriented programming language running on the JVM

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supports paradigm

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primary use case

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license type

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founded year

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runs on

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open source

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developed by

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pricing model

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api compatible with

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has static typing

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used by

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alternative to

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competes with

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