Considering it takes about 2-3 months of daily use of Scala to get comfortable, perhaps Kotlin would be a better choice. It's a simpler language and is supposed to be easy for Java developers to pick up.
On 10 November 2017 at 19:43, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don’t know either language but I’d be more interested in learning Kotlin > than learning Scala. > > OTOH I’m not sure how much time I’ll be able to contribute to Chainsaw so > not sure how much that should count for. > > (Shameless plug) Every java main() method deserves http://picocli.info > > > On Nov 11, 2017, at 10:16, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That's what I hear. I don't know Kotlin, but I'd certainly be interested > in > > learning! (particularly so I can write Gradle builds in a statically > typed > > language) > > > >> On 10 November 2017 at 19:10, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> 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> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
