Random q, but if pants v2 doesn’t support scala an...
# generalp
polite-vase-75369
01/26/2021, 6:58 PMRandom q, but if pants v2 doesn’t support scala and doesn’t have it in the roadmap for the first half, how is twitter using it?
w
witty-crayon-22786
01/26/2021, 7:52 PMshort answer: they’re not planning to migrate to 2.0
p
polite-vase-75369
01/26/2021, 7:53 PM😲
w
witty-crayon-22786
01/26/2021, 7:53 PMwitty-crayon-22786
01/26/2021, 7:53 PMbut we’ll be ready and waiting when they change their minds 😃
p
polite-vase-75369
01/26/2021, 7:54 PMseems like a heck of a lot of work
w
witty-crayon-22786
01/26/2021, 7:56 PMYeah. They gave an update at the last Bazel con, and it sounded like they had at least a year and a half to go.
witty-crayon-22786
01/26/2021, 7:57 PMWe're confident that pants can continue to have a better Python experience, and that we can be competitive for the JVM as well.
h
happy-kitchen-89482
01/26/2021, 8:09 PMI think we can be a lot better with Python, and quite a lot better for JVM, especially if you're writing custom rules.
happy-kitchen-89482
01/26/2021, 8:19 PMWe would like to have JVM support in the summer-ish, depending on whether we can find interested orgs to partner with, who can also contribute some of the work (which means their use-cases would be the first ones to be taken care of).
l
loud-stone-83419
01/26/2021, 9:07 PMyeah bazel scala support is not great
3 Views