Ashley Aitken <
mrhatken@...> writes:
[...]
> Of course there are other risk: finding developers that are competent
> enough in Scala,
That seems bogus for most situations. Maybe for a startup with no
money you'd require that kind of specific knowledge (so people could
start right away). Or a new project in some company where the
developers have worked extensively with Java but with nothing much
else.
Surely in most projects you've got a fair amount of stuff that a new
developer's going to have to learn, and scala doesn't seem
particularly onerous.
If you have a policy of employing people who have a really limited
range of experience (so not including anything outside C/C++/Java)
then there's some risk, but surely anyone with some familiarity with
one of F#, Lisp, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc., (even C#) isn't going to
find scala *that* tricky to pick up? And surely those are the people
you're looking for anyway?
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