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... I can see your point. You hit on what is at the same time both a strength and a problem of Scala: its extensibility. This lets us implement most major functionality in libraries. In some other languages, sequences with something like map or collect would be built in, and nobody has to see all the h...

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I am going through some MVVM articles, primarily this and this . 11 Answers 11 ...