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Install Scala on Raspberry Pi

Posted in Linux, Programming, Scala on June 4th, 2015 by Pavel – 3 Comments

Raspberry Pi loves ScalaThis article shows how to install and use Scala programming language on Raspberry Pi.

Traditionally, the programming language of choice for Raspberry Pi was Python, while JVM-based languages were set aside. That was reasonable, because JVM platform is rather resource-intensive, especially in interpreted mode, and the first version of Raspberry Pi was hardly apt for such a task.

However, things have changed: on the one hand, Raspberry Pi 2 now offers a 900MHz quad-core CPU and 1GB of RAM, on the other hand, Oracle released JDK 8 for ARM (with HardFP, JIT and server VM), which provides >10X performance boost (comparing to Zero VM from OpenJDK), so Scala runs nicely even on Raspberry Pi 1 (and, RPi 2 can run IntelliJ IDEA, if you wish).

Contents:

  1. Installing Java
  2. Installing Scala
  3. Using Scala
  4. Installing SBT
  5. Using SBT

Some of the commands will require root privileges, so either login as root user or use sudo to start an interactive shell via sudo -i.
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