+1 on consistency. Thanks,
Mayuresh On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Aditya Auradkar < aaurad...@linkedin.com.invalid> wrote: > 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 > >> > > >> > > > > > -- -Regards, Mayuresh R. Gharat (862) 250-7125
