[infinispan-dev] scala code in Infinispan

[Bela Ban]

On 1/31/13 1:37 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>
> On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Mircea Markus <mmarkus at redhat.com 
> <mailto: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?  :-)

I don't think so. First, this will be a few years off anyway. Second, 
this will not pose cross-language debugging problems. And third, even 
Java+closures is still Java.

Nice try, advocatus diaboli ! :-)

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