https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/author/steve-wilcockson/Articles written by Steve Wilcockson on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDKHugoen-usWed, 16 Jul 2025 06:41:05 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/getting-started-with-scala/Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:41:05 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/getting-started-with-scala/<p><strong>Why Scala?</strong></p> <p>At <a href="https://www.quantexa.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Quantexa</a> , we love Scala. This may be the first dedicated article on Foojay.io about Scala. I hope my colleagues and I can add more in due course.</p> <p>Scala is built on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). For foojay.io readers, this is &ldquo;stating the bleeding obvious,&rdquo; but it means it compiles to Java bytecode and runs on the same runtime environment as Java. This brings significant enterprise scalability, resilience and big data ecosystem benefits.</p>