What is a higher kind type ?

I am coming from an OOP and learning FP and I have met alot of new concepts and this one of them. So what is a higher kind and how to achieve this with Kotlin ?

Is Scala a good choice to learn in 2017?

How is Kotlin an improvement over Scala, Clojure, or Groovy?

What are the benefits of learning Kotlin?

What are examples of CMS or CMF bases on Scala?

I looking cms (cmf) software bases on scala language, something similarly to https://www.django-cms.org/. expected features: Easy way for exposing content by rest API (base on json) Support for resizing images. Support for multilingual User friend...

I'm torn between learning Python or Scala

I'm a soon-to-be PhD student on the field of Information Security. In the following months I'll have some spare time and I want to invest that time on learning a new language. Thing is, I'm torn between Python and Scala. I really like Python for it'...

Reusing Code in the frontend and backend

A major selling point for many frameworks these days are the ability to re-use code on the frontend and backend. NodeJS is quite vocal about this, but they are not the first. Pyjamas (Python to JS compiler): Your application's design can benefit fr...

What is the best language to get started with functional programming?

There are a lot of options- Clojure, Elixir, Ocaml, Scala, Haskell etc. I need advice on which one should I pick and why?