[infinispan-dev] scala code in Infinispan

[Bela Ban]

On 2/6/13 3:58 PM, Mircea Markus wrote:
> On 6 Feb 2013, at 15:37, Galder Zamarreño 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?  :-)
>>> It's really NOT the same thing: any decent java programmer keeps up 
>>> with all the enhancements in Java.
>>> What I might not want to - as an ISPN programmer - is to keep up 
>>> with the language enhancements in Scala. And I might need to do that 
>>> because of Scala language enhancements used in ISPN.
>>
>> ^ I wonder whether C programmers thought the same way 20 years ago.
> Personally I don't believe Scala is the next big thing as it doesn't 
> have a "killer" feature, e.g. OOP from C -> C++ or GC from C++ -> Java.

+1000.

Let the flame war start (Galder with his lighter against us with flam 
throwers) :-)


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