[infinispan-dev] scala code in Infinispan

[Manik Surtani]

On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Mircea Markus <mmarkus at redhat.com> wrote:

> I don't think that encouraging scala code is good purely for maintenance reasons. If there's a choice, it should be java. Not saying that learning a new language is not cool - but in practice people are a bit put off by maintaining Scala code. Its not only about what the writer of the code prefers as a language: it's more important what the maintainers of the code 
> will has to work with.

Would such maintainers also be put off by new language features (lambdas) in Java 8 when we (eventually) baseline to it?  :-)

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