Comments on: Scala 2.7.4-rc1 released http://blog.juma.me.uk/2009/04/16/scala-274-rc1-released/ Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:33:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ismael Juma http://blog.juma.me.uk/2009/04/16/scala-274-rc1-released/#comment-237 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:35:03 +0000 http://blog.juma.me.uk/?p=113#comment-237 I agree.

We’re using Scala more these days and there are quite a few annoyances in terms of tooling and interoperability with Java.

Thinks are improving though and 2.8.0 looks very promising, so I think it’s a good choice in the long run.

Ismael

]]> By: David Pierre http://blog.juma.me.uk/2009/04/16/scala-274-rc1-released/#comment-234 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:28:50 +0000 http://blog.juma.me.uk/?p=113#comment-234 It depends on the perspective.

The scala code itself, though the plugin gave me an hard time, was still a joy to write.

The real issue lies with java code using the scala code (ie more than 99% of our codebase).
For my team to discover and use any code I can write in scala, I really need autocompletion to work flawlessly.
That point is totally blocking.

After that, there are silent failures like the various refactoring not even noticing they should affect scala code.

David

]]> By: Ismael Juma http://blog.juma.me.uk/2009/04/16/scala-274-rc1-released/#comment-230 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:27:57 +0000 http://blog.juma.me.uk/?p=113#comment-230 Glad to be of help David. :)

What has been your experience with Scala in your projects so far?

Ismael

]]> By: David Pierre http://blog.juma.me.uk/2009/04/16/scala-274-rc1-released/#comment-229 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:58:43 +0000 http://blog.juma.me.uk/?p=113#comment-229 Ismael,

I was indeed very valuable to me.
I would have had to give up on introducing a bit of scala in my projects without it.

]]> By: Ismael Juma http://blog.juma.me.uk/2009/04/16/scala-274-rc1-released/#comment-227 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:04:38 +0000 http://blog.juma.me.uk/?p=113#comment-227 Thanks, Miles. All made possible by your work, of course. Happy to see an official release with it. :)

Best,
Ismael

]]> By: Miles Sabin http://blog.juma.me.uk/2009/04/16/scala-274-rc1-released/#comment-225 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:35:01 +0000 http://blog.juma.me.uk/?p=113#comment-225 That backport was great work Ismael. Many thanks from me, and I’m sure from all the people who’ve been using it while wait for 2.7.4!

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