Intro Scala pitfalls

There are a handful of mistakes that most people (who aren’t coming from a Haskell background) tend to fall into.

This is an abridged summary of what I’ve learned from watching a few people get started with Scala. There are a handful of mistakes that most people (who aren’t coming from a Haskell background) tend to fall into.

My advice for Scala beginners:

1. Don’t use collections methods that throw.

2. Don’t use Try (often).

3. Don’t use Option.get.

4. Reduce block depth with for …