Great to see. Now what about the other 4 points that I mentioned?
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 8:33 PM, bandi shankar <[email protected]>wrote: > *yes, we can serialize java 8 lambdas .** > **http://kingsfleet.blogspot.com/2013/12/lambda-will-it-serialize.html ** > ** > **Since in future we are going to adapt to java 8 .** > **So it's better to be prepared for it. Since we can do everything with > java 8 , than why to be dependent on scala.** > **Atleast we should start discussing it now to be well prepared for > future. * > > On 05/25/2014 07:14 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >
