> Hadrian: > We know however from past experience that the community's ability to > support scala based code was not at par with the rest of the code base.
This is changing. Scala is getting more popular among Java people. And this trend is visible almost within our community. Year ago I wouldn't commit anything in Scala, now I'm waiting for another of my pull requests to be merged into the Spring Scala [1] project. In the year from this point forward probably more of us will adopt Scala for their skillsets. Keep in mind also that rejecting Scala contributions will result in rejecting the Scala people from our community. This is Catch-22 kind of situation. > Christian: > But providing an integration with Stomp is not a Scala subject IMO. > And there is no reason why this component can not be developed in Java. Yes it is - maintenance of Java code making use of Scala libraries not designed to be accessed from Java is a hell. It is technically possible, but tough in reality. This is unnecessary maintenance burden we can easily avoid just by writing the component in Scala. > Christian: > There are many other scripting languages > running in a JVM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages). > Should we also accept new components written in these languages? I don't > think so... First of all Scala is bit different than ordinary scripting language, because it is often (and successfully) considered by users as the replacement for Java in the context of the messaging-related systems. Also, let's say Groovy, can be integrated into Java component more easily than Scala. > Willem: > I think few people know about jclouds, hl7,redis … > but we are open mind to host these components. Very good point. To summarize a little bit - I strongly believe that we as development team can handle supporting Scala components. I also believe that throwing away Scala contributions from our community will not be good for it in the long run. Best regards. [1] http://blog.springsource.org/2012/12/10/introducing-spring-scala -- Henryk Konsek http://henryk-konsek.blogspot.com
