# Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky

DevFeed: [Creator of Scala: Comparing Languages And How AI Will Impact Them | Martin Odersky](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/creator-of-scala-comparing-languages-and-how-ai-will-impact-them-martin-odersky-18089.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.developing.dev/p/creator-of-scala-comparing-languages>)

Author: Ryan Peterman

Published: 2026-08-31T13:05:35Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Developing Dev](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-developing-dev.md>)

Topics: [Scala](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scala.md>), [Programming language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming-language.md>), [Functional programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/functional-programming.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [functional-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/functional-programming.md>), [languages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/languages.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [scala](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scala.md>)

## AI overview

An interview with Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, compares Rust, Zig, Python, and Scala and discusses how AI may affect programming-language ecosystems. Odersky also explains functional programming as a style based on values and functions, with minimal mutable state and side effects.

## Source excerpt

There are so many choices every programming language creator makes while navigating engineering tradeoffs in building one.