[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-6893?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Tristan Tarrant commented on ISPN-6893: --------------------------------------- [~ijuma] indeed, but we need something that works now. Reasons for dropping Scala (in no particular order of importance / impact): * no usable build for Java 9 available yet * getting rid of the horrible hybrid code we have * more predictable performance of the constructs we use * lower the barrier to contribution both by internal and external developers * reduce the distribution size by 7MB * speed-up the build -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.11#64026)