Scala allows lazy evaluation and operator overloading and lambdas which can be serialized. Java 8 provides lambdas that I am not sure if you can serialize.
Also, Spark already uses Scala which has been around for a decade. Java8 isn't here yet. On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:48 PM, bandi shankar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I was just thinking , do we still need scala . Since in java 8 we have > all(probably) kind of feature provided by scala. > Since I am new to group , so just thinking why not to make mahout away > from scala. Is there any specific reason to adopt scala. > > Bandi >
