Twitter is the only company I know of using Scala. Unfortunately it is not working for them. Their code is more buggy and unstable than ever.
On Jul 30, 4:09 am, Mario Fusco <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
