[cachemoney]

Actors had a memory leak when a lot of the formative Twitter Scala stuff happened. This lead to more usage of java concurrency primitives, which snowballed within the culture.

There's some people at Twitter who truly love and grok Scala and Scala idioms inside out, and there's some people who look at Scala as a more functional, less verbose Java.

[SkyMarshal]

Interesting form of technical debt. I hear Akka is replacing Scala's actors lib in 3.1 or thereabouts. Any talk about adopting it?

>There's some people at Twitter who truly love and grok Scala and Scala idioms inside out, and there's some people who look at Scala as a more functional, less verbose Java.

I'm a full card-carrying member of exactly both groups, but if all Scala does is succeed b/c of the latter, it will have served a wonderful purpose in displacing Java.