u/Ancient_Thought_5237

Hi everyone,

Our team has been experimenting with Claude Code recently to see if it can speed up our Scala workflow. While the speed is impressive, we’re having mixed feelings about the code quality.

Specifically, we’ve noticed that it tends to produce very "primitive" or imperative-style code. For example, it often misses obvious opportunities to use for-comprehensions or idiomatic functional patterns, opting instead for nested loops or manual checks that feel more like Java 8 than modern Scala.

Is anyone else using Claude Code for Scala?

• How would you rate the idiomatic quality of the code it generates?
• Do you find yourself having to refactor its output constantly to make it "look like Scala"?
• Are there any specific prompts or contexts that help it understand functional paradigms better?

Curious to hear your thoughts!

edit: We use Scala 2