<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 31 Jan 2013, at 11:53, Manik Surtani wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 31 Jan 2013, at 11:45, Mircea Markus <<a href="mailto:mmarkus@redhat.com">mmarkus@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The REST module is written in Scala (both main + tests). We have some *test* contributions written in Java (thanks mlinhard).</div><div>There was an IRC discussion on whether it's worth migrating the Java contribution to Scala code or not. </div><div><br></div><div>Pros for migrating the contribution from Java to Scala:</div><div>- the REST module is written in Scala. Contributing these tests in Java would make the module bi-lingual, potentially confusing future contributors</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why? You can choose what to write your tests in.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>- even though this is not the case with this particular contribution, there might be code duplications between the scala test suite and java test suite.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Don't create separate test suites. Put them in the same class path - e.g., src/test/scala - you can have .java files in here too, they will be compiled together, run together, can reference one another.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Cons for migrating the contribution from Java to Scala:</div><div>- there are contributors that are not familiar with Scala or are more proficient with Java(such as mlinhard). Forcing them to contribute in a language they are not familiar with would put them off</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>- my general feeling over time was that people (including me) are not very enthusiastic about debugging and extending Scala code. So IMO if there's a choice between scala and java (in the scope of the scala modules) we should stick to Java wherever possible (such as this contribution). </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That should not be a hard and fast rule for all modules. I agree that some modules (like core) should just stick to Java.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 </div></div>will has to work with.<br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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