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Why Scala is better than R
Welcome back! Yesterday we talked about why Scala maybe a better language than Python, if you want to read that article, here it is:
Now, we have to talk about why Scala maybe a better language than R!
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Let’s begin!
Building Bigger Projects
A huge advantage with Scala is the ability of building full fledged applications with this language, R has some ability of this (RShiny), but it still seems that Scala is the better choice here. It’s also been noted that Scala applications / code base tend to be more stable than R, could it be a situation where it’s the opposite? Sure, but it does seem like that happens to be the case right now. Also, since Scala is an object oriented…
