Personally, I prefer the consistency and 2 spaces for indentation. Although I'm in agreement with Jay about the ambition to eventually move the server code to Java, I'd hate to make that a blocker for discussing a simple change like standardizing on java/scala indentation :-)
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 > -- Thanks, Neha
