Except that Scala lacks Go's headline feature: green threads. Being able to write event-based code without the use of callbacks is a major paradigm shift away from almost everything that came before it.
Yes, Scala has loop/react ... but they are really just a different way of writing callbacks, and don't allow you write truly synchronous-style code over an event based system.
Yes, Scala has loop/react ... but they are really just a different way of writing callbacks, and don't allow you write truly synchronous-style code over an event based system.