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Re:Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log se... by fosk on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:35PM (#11668466)
Because Scala adds overhead.
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Re:Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log se... by poooogles on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:10PM (#11669263)
Where? In operational cost? In development time? In performance?
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Re:Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log se... by jbooth on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:15PM (#11669296)
Yes.

Depending on use-case, of course, there's lot of places where scala is preferable to Java. A byte-shuttling service where performance is important, mutability reigns and expressiveness is irrelevant.. not one of those places.

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Re:Twitter open-sources a high-performance replicated log se... by balamaci on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:45PM (#11669551)
Yes.

Joke aside, at least in hiring people it should.

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