i tried to use python with spark but everyone else just uses scala, just use scala

>>54397030
It's shit

Nope

>>54397030
If you don't find JRE/JDK and long compile times to be cancerous then Scala is generally not awful.

>>54397030
Of all of the shit functional languages people try to force, Scala is objectively the worst.

>>54400450
which one is the best?

>>54400593
Common Lisp and OCaml both have niches.
That's pretty much it.

>>54397030
Scala is amazing. It is the ultimate language.

>>54397101
PySpark is ok, but it won't give you the same flexibility or performance that Scala does. Hell, with the DataFrames API it's not even remotely hard.

For anyone out of the loop, Spark core and libs are written in Scala, but there are multiple language bindings such as Python.

>>54400765
Guile is a pretty nice embeddable language. Racket is cool.