[infinispan-dev] scala code in Infinispan

[Mircea Markus]

On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:47, Bela Ban wrote:

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

Cheers,
-- 
Mircea Markus
Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)




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