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nnopepe | 3 years ago

I am unfamiliar with scala, which of it's traits makes it deserving of higher pay?

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lmm|3 years ago

It's popular in finance, which pulls up the average pay.

agravier|3 years ago

Also in all sorts of data engineering, productionized data science, etc.

jlund-molfese|3 years ago

Functional languages seem to have a smaller talent pool and higher salaries.

You can write procedural Scala, but if that’s the case, you might as well use modern Java.

fazfq|3 years ago

I guess the fact that it's rarer than other languages, but I have no idea.

texasbigdata|3 years ago

Just a guess: perhaps that it’s more applicable to large use cases and at clients that are much more likely to be profitable and therefore able to pay?