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.
We don't use Scala yet at work, but I often tell my coworkers about my experiences with my private projects, and point out where it is clearly superior to Java. I plan to introduce Scala using the back door when the next small "personal" project comes up -> viral marketing.
Of course one of the most important arguments is the interoperability with Java, and you can't stress this often enough. Just repeat 10 times "But you get just normal Java classes!", that seems to be very convincing :-)
Landei
