Hi, I study and play at home with Scala from more than a year. I don't know if it will be the Next Big Language, but I know I enjoy it a lot. I also think it improves both my productivity and the readability of my code since it gives some constructs and features I miss a lot in Java.
For these reasons I tried to introduce it at a least a couple of times in my real world job, but I found a lot of resistance from a part of the technical guys (who basically are too lazy to learn a completely new language) and especially from non-technical people who gave the following justifications: 1. Scala is still mainly an academic language and it is not mature enough for production; 2. When we will need to hire it will be far more difficult (and expansive) to find Scala developers than Java ones; 3. The effort and cost to convert Java developers in Scala ones greatly overcome the advantages of writing software in Scala instead of in Java. Of course I don't agree with this points (especially the first one), but in the end I had to give up so I am still obliged to do the 100% of my work in Java. After this long premise, my questions are: 1. How many of you are the same position of mine? And conversely, how many are using Scala in their day by day job? 2. For who is using Scala, do you find a real advantage in that? 3. How could I convince people in my company to do part of our development in Scala? Cheers, Mario Fusco twitter: @mariofusco -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
