I believe that both Scala and Kotlin have been approved by various PMC members here, though no contributions have been made related to either yet. Though I haven’t used Scala actively in a couple years, I can help review code and such still.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 14:47 Oliver Heger <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > once we had a discussion (it must be one or two years ago) whether > > Commons could support components in other (JVM) languages, too. IIRC, > > there were no strong objections, but there has never been a follow up. > > > > For a project in Scala, I needed some limited functionality to process > > command line parameters. I came up with a functional solution that > > seemed to be pretty flexible. So I extracted the code into a separate > > repository [1] and enhanced it. > > > > It is now in a shape that it supports a lot of the features typical to a > > CLI library. The functional programming (FP) approach is probably > > somewhat special: you define extractors using a DSL, which are actually > > monads and thus can be nicely transformed and composed to more complex > > structures. The end product is a configuration object representing all > > the parameters passed to the application in a type-safe manner. The > > repository contains a README describing the high-level concepts and a > > tutorial [2] with a comprehensive description of all the features > available. > > > > So I would like to ask again the question whether Commons could have > > components in other programming languages, and more specifically, > > whether this CLI for Scala library could be a candidate. > > > > Notes: > > - Except for the domain, there is no relation to the original [CLI]; the > > concepts are completely different. > > - The Scala CLI has been written in and for Scala; so the API can > > probably not be used from Java directly. > > - As special Scala language features are used, it won't be trivial to > > port this code to Java; but maybe some of the ideas could be > > incorporated into [CLI]? > > > > Thanks > > Oliver > > > > [1] https://github.com/oheger/scli > > [2] https://github.com/oheger/scli/blob/master/Tutorial.adoc > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
