Hi Martjin, Thanks for compiling the FLIP. I agree with the sentiment that Scala poses considerable maintenance overhead and key improvements (like 2.13 or 2.12.8 supports) are hanging stale. With that said before we make this move we should attempt to understand the userbase affected. A quick Slack and user mailing list search does return quite a bit of results for scala (admittedly a cursory look at them suggest that many of them have to do with missing features in Scala that exist in Java or Scala versions). I would love to see some polls on this topic, we could also use the Flink twitter handle to ask the community about this.
I am aware of users having large existing Scala codebases for Flink. This move would pose a very large effort on them, as they would need to rewrite much of their existing code. What are the alternatives in your opinion, Martjin? On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 6:22 AM Martijn Visser <martijnvis...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to open a discussion thread on FLIP-265 Deprecate and remove > Scala API support. Please take a look at > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-265+Deprecate+and+remove+Scala+API+support > and provide your feedback. > > Best regards, > > Martijn > https://twitter.com/MartijnVisser82 > https://github.com/MartijnVisser >
