> How have people faired with Scala integration with Java libraries?
It's useful because the JVM ecosystem is much larger than the Scala ecosystem. There's almost always a library for your purpose. If it isn't as idiomatic Scala as you'd want you can often easy create a small wrapper.
> Suddenly I have to worry about the Jr Dev doing silly things like introducing mutable Java objects into functional code.
It's useful because the JVM ecosystem is much larger than the Scala ecosystem. There's almost always a library for your purpose. If it isn't as idiomatic Scala as you'd want you can often easy create a small wrapper.
> Suddenly I have to worry about the Jr Dev doing silly things like introducing mutable Java objects into functional code.
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