I think Kotlin would be more approachable than Scala... thoughts? Gary
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> >
