Python is a high level, interpreted and general purpose dynamic programming language that focuses on code readability. Python requires less typing, provides new libraries, fast prototyping, and several other new features.
Scala is a high level language.it is a purely object-oriented programming language. The source code of the Scala is designed in such a way that its compiler can interpret the Java classes.
Below are some major differences between Python and Scala:
| Python | Scala |
|---|---|
| Python is a dynamically typed language. | Scala is a statically typed language. |
| We don’t need to specify objects in Python because it is a dynamically typed Object Oriented Programming language. | We need to specify the type of variables and objects in Scala because Scala is statically typed Object Oriented Programming language. |
| Python is easy to learn and use. | Scala is less difficult to learn than Python. |
| An extra work is created for the interpreter at the runtime. | No extra work is created in Scala and thus it is 10 times faster than Python. |
| The data types are decided by it during runtime. | This is not the case in Scala that is why while dealing with large data process, Scala should be considered instead of Python |
| Python’s Community is huge compared to Scala. | Scala also has good community support. But still, it is lesser than Python. |
| Python supports heavyweight process forking and doesn’t support proper multithreading. | Scala has reactive cores and a list of asynchronous libraries and hence Scala is a better choice for implementing concurrency. |
| Its methodologies are much complex in Python as it is dynamic programming language. | Testing is much better in scala because it is a statically typed language. |
| It is popular because of its English-like syntax. | For scalable and concurrent systems, Scala play much bigger. |
| Python is easy for the developers to write code in it. | Scala is less difficult to learn than Python and it is difficult to write code in Scala. |
| There is an interface in Python to many OS system calls and libraries. It has many interpreters | It is basically a compiled language and all source codes are compiled before execution |
| Python language is highly prone to bugs whenever there is any change to the existing code. | No such problem is seen in Scala. |
| Python has libraries for Machine learning and proper data science tools and Natural Language Processing (NLP). | Where as Scala has no such tools. |
| Python can be used for small-scale projects. | Scala can be used for large-scale projects. |
| It doesn’t provide scalable feature support. | It provides scalable feature support. |
