Bump. Anyone else have an opinion? Neha/Jay - You've made your thoughts clear. Any thoughts on how/if we make any changes?
Thanks, Aditya On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Aditya Auradkar <aaurad...@linkedin.com> wrote: > I'm with Neha on this one. I don't have a strong preference on 2 vs 4 but > I do think that consistency is more important. It makes writing code a bit > easier especially since patches are increasingly likely to touch both Java > and Scala code and it's nice to not think about formatting certain files > differently from others. > > Aditya > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Jay Kreps <j...@confluent.io> wrote: > >> Ismael, >> >> Makes sense. I think there is a good chance that it is just our ignorance >> of scala tools. I really do like having compile time enforced formatting >> and dependency checking as we have for java. But we really put no effort >> into trying to improve the scala developer experience so it may be an >> unfair comparison. >> >> -Jay >> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jay Kreps <j...@confluent.io> wrote: >> > >> > > I do agree that working with a mixture of scala and java is a pain in >> the >> > > butt. What about considering the more extreme idea of just moving the >> > > remaining server-side scala into java? I like Scala, but the tooling >> and >> > > compatibility story for java is better, and Java 8 addressed some of >> the >> > > gaps. For a system like Kafka I do kind of think that what Scala >> offers >> > is >> > > less useful, and the kind of boring Java tooling like IDE support, >> > > findbugs, checkstyle, simple exception stack traces, and a good >> > > compatability story is more important. >> > >> > >> > I can certainly see the case for avoiding the complexity of two >> different >> > languages (assuming that the benefits are not worth it). However, I am >> not >> > sure about the "findbugs, checkstyle" point. Static checking is an area >> > that Scala does quite well (better than Java in many ways): scalastyle, >> > abide, scalariform, wartremover, scapegoat, etc. And Scala 2.11 also >> has a >> > number of Xlint warnings. >> > >> > Best, >> > Ismael >> > >> > >
