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In discussions about which programming language, if any, could succeed Java in the enterprise, Scala comes up a lot. Scala is a highly scalable programming language with support for multicore architectures that uses the Java Virtual Machine. It's perhaps best known for being used at Twitter to replace some of the company's Ruby code.

Scala was created by Martin Odersky in 2003. Today Odersky is launching Typesafe, a new company dedicated to providing enterprise support for the language. Typesafe is also providing a stack of open source Scala tools, including middleware, called Typesafe Stack.