Re: [infinispan-dev] scala code in Infinispan

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