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Excellent news. I'm just starting to learn Scala as a natural evolution to Java. The pace of Heroku rolling out new language support lately has been great. I'll be playing around with Heroku more, but I have to wonder: should I be expecting to pay something to use Heroku as a side learning exercise?

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Depends on whether or not your side project uses more than 5MB of database storage. I'm running a tiny node.js app on Heroku and you get up to 750 hours per month of free CPU time, so I haven't paid a dime (but I am really in love with how slick everything is).

Is anyone else stunned at how quickly Heroku has been pumping out new hotness? I was kind of worried when they announced they were being acquired, but if anything, it seems like being acquired has increased their pace.

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