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Guice might be one of the few libraries that is easier to use in Java than it is in Scala. The main reason for this is the absence of class literals in Scala. Instead of writing Service.class in Scala we write classOf[Service] which is longer and less readable. To illustrate this lets compare two Guice [...]

While using traits in a small Scala project, I finally understood when to use self types. Self types are often characterized by Scala newbies as an incomprehensible language feature with no obvious usage. After coding with traits for a while I understood that self types are an essential information hiding tool for composing traits. I [...]