[seancorfield]

15 hours = 2 x 7.5 hours - 2 days? (seems like basic math to me :)

Akka is _not_ a language - I'm not sure where you got that impression? (please explain so I can respond to it - no judgement). Based on the Akka documentation (pre-1.0), it did not seem to be completely a "drop in replacement for scala actors" but I hope it's moving that way (and I'm very pleased that Scala is adopting Akka as the default implementation!).

Heh, yes, anecdotes are meant to be just that....

[lightcatcher]

I also thought you were considering Akka as a language. The sentence where you mention "leaving 3 languages in the mix" gave me this impression.

[seancorfield]

Ah, I see. No, we have another language in the mix which is not relevant to this discussion. The "One True Language" comment was a bit tongue in cheek since I doubt we'd really end up with just a single language across all tiers. I had initially hoped Scala would become our primary backend language but it looks like that "honor" will go to Clojure as we're doing more and more work with that.