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SysGears
Company blog · sysgears.com/articlesprogrammingweb
SysGears is the company blog at sysgears.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
One HN commenter cites a SysGears article on how and why Twitter uses Scala as support for the claim that Scala is a successful language. Comments do not assess the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
Is it niche? Scala is arguably the single most successful functional language. It interoperates with the whole JVM ecosystem. It's probably the #3 JVM language after Java and Kotlin. Spark is Scala, Twitter was (is?) Scala https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala...
Comment linking /articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala/
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