As part of the recent Scalar 2016 conference, we did some Devoxx-style whiteboard voting. We got quite a lot of votes - thanks! Of course, given this very scientific and statistically significant method, we can now present the results!

The voting was anonymous, but we made a photo of each vote so that you can see for yourself that the results are legitimate!

FP in Scala

Everybody’s doing functional programming in Scala these days, but which toolkit do you use to help you out? Possibilities included the standard library, Scalaz and Cats. Stdlib leads the way with 50 votes, but the combined powers of Scalaz and Cats are closing in with 36 votes.

RDBMS in Scala

Officially, we are all streaming big data daily. Unofficially, we occasionally still from time to time write CRUD-like systems using a relational database. If this happens, what would you use to connect to the database? Raw JDBC or …

Slick is the clear leader. But, Doobie has as many users as Hibernate! We’ll see how this develops.

IDE for Scala

IDEs are a topic everybody has a strong opinion on. However, it seems that at least among Scala attendees there’s not much too discuss. Pick three random Scalar attendees and two of them will be using Intellij IDEA. I think we’ll have to let Jetbrains know about the great sponsoring opportunities for next year!

Scala+Web

Doing webapps is almost synonymous with being a programmer. We have two clear leaders: Play with 47 votes Akka HTTP (formerly Spray.io) with 44 votes.

We’ll have to repeat the experiment next year and then compare the results! Or maybe you have an idea for other questions that could be asked? Let us know, comments are open :)

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