• Immutable
  
• Functions as 1. class citizens
  
• Object Oriented & Functional
• Concurrent by Design
• Less Boilerplate Code
• JVM Language

String foo = "foo";

final String foo = "foo";

val foo = "foo"

var foo = "foo"

public String foo() {   return "foo";}

def foo(): String = {
   "foo"}def foo(): String = "foo"def foo() = "foo"def foo = "foo"

public class Foo {    private final String bar;   public Foo() {      this("empty");   }   public Foo(String bar) {      this.bar = bar;   }   public String getBar() {      return bar;   }}

class Foo(bar: String = "empty")

class Foo() {   public String static bar() {      return "bar";   }}

object Foo {   def bar() = "bar"}

• Maven für Scala
• Interaktiv
• Jeder startet als Hater

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbteclipse" % "sbteclipse-plugin" % "2.2.0")
addSbtPlugin("com.github.mpeltonen" % "sbt-idea" % "1.6.0")

resolvers += "Typesafe repository" at "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/releases/"

resolvers += "IA Nexus" at "http://buildsystem-ana.rz1.intelliad.com:8081/nexus/content/groups/public/"

• http://scala-ide.org/
  
• http://www.scala-sbt.org/
  
• http://www.scalatest.org/
  
• http://twitter.github.io/effectivescala/
  
• http://docs.scala-lang.org/style/