All the buzz about Scala in the popular press has gotten my attention. Hopefully, Scala will not disappoint.

From InfoQ: Roundup: Scala as the long term replacement for Java

“Scala has been receiving much attention lately as a possible candidate to replace Java in the future. James Strachan creator of Groovy advocates in favor of Scala as James Gosling, creator of Java and Charles Nutter JRuby Core Developer, have done in the past.”

Things I’m looking through include:

1. Learning Scala
2. Programming Scala from Ora.com seems to be online in HTML for free (for now)
3. Ted Neward’s Busy Developers Guide to Scala series on Developerworks
4. Scala By Example
5. Scala on Google App Engine

I’m considering buying the book on Scala — Programming in Scala