Ask HN: When people say "we use Scala for our API" what do they mean?

Well for me It would mean I used Play! The fact that its built on netty (non-blocking io) and is by default async that and its Iteratee and Enumerator makes it real nice for api dev.

Poe'd?

This is exactly the buzzword mumbo jumbo that OP was asking to have clarified.

We use Unfiltered. Playframework/Scalatra are also considered as good alternatives.

They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.

> They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.

The claim "java is a programming language for lamers" is only true if portability isn't important. Portability is important. Android's reliance on Java proves that.

If you had simply said that Java is a sucky, crippled language, I would have agreed.

I'm not sure portability is why android has java as its primary language ... For example http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html

We use Scalatra. It doesn't do too much/get in the way.