+1 to what Matt has said. I've had this feedback multiple times from developers that the usage of Scala is a barrier to getting involved in the project. I understand the historical reasons for chosing Scala and realise the language does give us lots of benefits for stability & productivity once learnt. However, for new projects I'd +1 on using Go in the future.
On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 17:20, Matt Rutkowski <mrutkow...@apache.org> wrote: > IMO, one of the largest barriers to getting more (back-end) developers > into OW has been the use of Scala (sig. learning curve will not even > consider mounting) is by implementing in languages where the pool of active > developers is lower. It seems that nearly 100% of Serverless technology > "in the open" is being done in GoLang. If we wish to attract developers > from Knative, OpenFaaS, Kubeless, Fission, Fn, IronFunctions, etc., they > ALL use Go (which is not surprising as everyone is more-or-less looking at > a Kube stack, also Go, for CN apps with Serverless being a subset). > > Personally, after experiencing Go, for wskdeploy/CLI it was a joy to learn > (despite some tooling annoyances) and have listed it as a top requirement > developers training. In fact, I had assumed that as we seek to mainstream > on a Kube deployment we would want to unify around Go to continue to be > relevant in the Serverless developer community in order to lower the > barrier to entry/growth. > > My 2 cents. > > On 2019/07/15 09:58:58, "Michele Sciabarra" <mich...@sciabarra.com> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > In my efforts to work a Kanative Whisk, I reached the point where I have > a kit with tekton-pipelines, knatve-serving building an actionlooop based > runtime. Now I need to implement a controller, in order to use the existing > wsk tooling. > > > > I know there is a prototype kwsk implementation made by redhat, written > in Go but looks like it is obsolete and unfinished, and to the best of my > knowledge, abandoned. > > > > I would like to resume the effort of writing an updated controller. I > actually already have a prototype using the Julia language. Julia is really > awesome, Python simplicity and Go speed, but I feed the community would > disagree on using Julia. Of course if I am wrong... let me know because > that would be my preferred choice. > > > > However, I feel that, given our Scala background, Rust would be a much > better choice for the KnativeWhisk controller. So I propose to use Rust > for the KwhiskController. > > > > What does the community think of the proposal? > > > > > > -- > > Michele Sciabarra > > mich...@sciabarra.com > > > -- Regards, James Thomas
