On 10 November 2017 at 16:17, Robert Middleton <osfan6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What would the advantage be of using Scala vs just normal Java? > Mostly from a curiosity standpoint; I've never done Scala so I don't > know it works. > The main advantage I can see is that most of the developers interested in working on v3 all prefer to work in Scala. I could go on and on about Scala over Java, but really, my comparison would all come down to functional programming over object oriented programming. When it comes to shared libraries like Log4j, I find Java far more appropriate and work in that space. In a GUI application where there is no real public API? I'd rather work in Scala. Kotlin was another option, but it seems like none of us really have experience there. > Did you actually have trouble building? I'm pretty sure that when I > built it a few months ago I simply opened up the project in Netbeans > and it built immediately as a maven project(although looking at the > POM it does look like it uses ant on the backend for some reason). > Building the project is simple enough. I had issues with: 1. Running mvn clean install does not work by default unless you run "mvn site:site" before running "mvn install". 2. Doesn't build in Java 9. 3. The maven-release-plugin is not configured at all, so I had to do all release steps by hand instead. -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
