On 1/31/13 1:37 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:

On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:35, Mircea Markus <mmarkus@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.