Re: As a Scala newbie starting to work with Spark does it make more sense to learn Scala 2 or Scala 3?

2022-10-11 Thread Sean Owen
See the pom.xml file https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/pom.xml#L3590 2.13.8 at the moment; IIRC there was some Scala issue that prevented updating to 2.13.9. Search issues/PRs. On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 6:11 PM Henrik Park wrote: > scala 2.13.9 was released. do you know which spark

Re: As a Scala newbie starting to work with Spark does it make more sense to learn Scala 2 or Scala 3?

2022-10-11 Thread Henrik Park
scala 2.13.9 was released. do you know which spark version would have it built-in? thanks Sean Owen wrote: I would imagine that Scala 2.12 support goes away, and Scala 3 support is added, for maybe Spark 4.0, and maybe that happens in a year or so. -- Simple Mail https://simplemail.co.in/

Re: As a Scala newbie starting to work with Spark does it make more sense to learn Scala 2 or Scala 3?

2022-10-11 Thread Sean Owen
For Spark, the issue is maintaining simultaneous support for multiple Scala versions, which has historically been mutually incompatible across minor versions. Until Scala 2.12 support is reasonable to remove, it's hard to also support Scala 3, as it would mean maintaining three versions of code. I

Re: As a Scala newbie starting to work with Spark does it make more sense to learn Scala 2 or Scala 3?

2022-10-11 Thread Никита Романов
No one knows for sure except Apache, but I’d learn Scala 2 if I were you. Even if Spark one day migrates to Scala 3 (which is not given), it’ll take a while for the industry to adjust. It even takes a while to move from Spark 2 to Spark 3 (Scala 2.11 to Scala 2.12). I don’t think your

As a Scala newbie starting to work with Spark does it make more sense to learn Scala 2 or Scala 3?

2022-10-10 Thread Oliver Plohmann
Hello, I was lucky and will be joining a project where Spark is being used in conjunction with Python. Scala will not be used at all. Everything will be Python. This means that I have free choice whether to start diving into Scala 2 or Scala 3. For future Spark jobs knowledge of Scala will