As an individual who, up until only a couple months back, predominantly worked with languages such as Java and C#, Scala seemed like a whole new world. In the beginning, it was quite challenging to grasp and get comfortable with as it was so different from what I was used to. Now, coming toward the end of my 4 month co-op placement here at Hootsuite, I’d like to share some of the things I learned whilst working with Scala.

No more Null values

NullPointerExceptions are thrown when a method unexpectedly returns null and when this possibility is unhandled in code. Code bases and patterns…