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Re: [scala] Scala Marketing Challenge
by Jim McBeath-3
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Josh,
I find it quite interesting that you are not asking the question
"is Scala an appropriate choice for a production language at our
company?", but appear to be assuming that it is a good choice
for you, and all that is left is to convince your management and
co-workers that you are right. If I were undecided, I would be
immediately put on the defensive by that approach. It would seem
more appropriate for you to be supplying your co-workers with
information about the pros and cons of using Scala and asking for
their opinion about whether it is right for your company.
My current opinion about the pros and cons of Scala as compared to Java:
Pro: Scala is a more powerful and complex language than Java,
and thus will allow your developers to be more productive, so you
will not need as many developers.
Con: Scala is a more powerful and complex language than Java,
and thus will require that your developers are more intelligent,
making it harder to find more developers.
I believe "The Scala Experiment" is to find out if the additional power
and complexity of Scala can successfully be brought to the masses of Java
programmers. I am not yet sure if I would recommend to my own company
that we be a part of that experiment.
As with you, I am interested in hearing about other people's experience
switching from Java to Scala in a production environment.
--
Jim
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:45:09PM -0400, Josh Suereth wrote:
> I really hate spamming email boxes, but I do think this is important to
> the future of Scala. I was hoping to get feedback from the community
> about the following:
> 1) If you're using Scala at work, what methods did you use to convince
> coworkers/managers to switch?
> 2) What do you think Scala needs to do to "market" itself to the Java
> Community
> Although I set up a place for comments on my blog (shameless plug:
> http://suereth.blogspot.com/2008/07/scala-marketing-challenge.html)
> I'd like to see what the users on this list have to think about the
> issue.
> - Josh
> As an Aside: I'm attempting to make a case to prove the viability of
> Scala for future work at my company currently and am hoping to gain
> hear about others experiences.
I find it quite interesting that you are not asking the question
"is Scala an appropriate choice for a production language at our
company?", but appear to be assuming that it is a good choice
for you, and all that is left is to convince your management and
co-workers that you are right. If I were undecided, I would be
immediately put on the defensive by that approach. It would seem
more appropriate for you to be supplying your co-workers with
information about the pros and cons of using Scala and asking for
their opinion about whether it is right for your company.
My current opinion about the pros and cons of Scala as compared to Java:
Pro: Scala is a more powerful and complex language than Java,
and thus will allow your developers to be more productive, so you
will not need as many developers.
Con: Scala is a more powerful and complex language than Java,
and thus will require that your developers are more intelligent,
making it harder to find more developers.
I believe "The Scala Experiment" is to find out if the additional power
and complexity of Scala can successfully be brought to the masses of Java
programmers. I am not yet sure if I would recommend to my own company
that we be a part of that experiment.
As with you, I am interested in hearing about other people's experience
switching from Java to Scala in a production environment.
--
Jim
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:45:09PM -0400, Josh Suereth wrote:
> I really hate spamming email boxes, but I do think this is important to
> the future of Scala. I was hoping to get feedback from the community
> about the following:
> 1) If you're using Scala at work, what methods did you use to convince
> coworkers/managers to switch?
> 2) What do you think Scala needs to do to "market" itself to the Java
> Community
> Although I set up a place for comments on my blog (shameless plug:
> http://suereth.blogspot.com/2008/07/scala-marketing-challenge.html)
> I'd like to see what the users on this list have to think about the
> issue.
> - Josh
> As an Aside: I'm attempting to make a case to prove the viability of
> Scala for future work at my company currently and am hoping to gain
> hear about others experiences.
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