On 31 Jan 2013, at 14:12, Manik Surtani wrote:
*Also as a java developer you have the general option of not learning Scala, but you don't really have the option of not keeping up with Java8.
So you generally only learn new things when you have no other option? ;)
no, but I like the option of choosing the things I learn (as much as possible). And personally, I'd rather learn distributed algorithms than Scala :-)
I'm being an arse, ignore me. I realise your main concern is productivity, which is why any Scala code has been restricted to a few, pretty independent modules.
You're not at all - this is really something we should discuss as a team.