I love Matthias' suggestion. > I think there's a reasonable case for decoupling this from Apache Kafka.
+1 I have forwarded this discussion to Debasish Ghosh (from the kafka-streams-scala team) for more feedback. On 2025/10/23 23:35:01 Ismael Juma wrote: > Thanks Matthias, this is helpful. A couple of inline comments below. > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM Matthias J. Sax <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So I would say, overall there is fair usage of this module, so I am not > > sure if we would really want to discontinue it? > > > > Given these adoption numbers, the fact that we haven't done a particularly > good job supporting new Scala versions and the slow rate of change for > streams-scala (is this accurate?), I think there's a reasonable case for > decoupling this from Apache Kafka. It would make the builds faster and > simpler if we could remove all of the Scala machinery. > > If we really want to consider to discontinue the kafka-streams-scala > > module, we might want to reach out to the user mailing list, too? > > > > Makes sense. > > Thanks, > Ismael >
