Re: [Grinder-use] Scala language support ?

[Philip A. <ph...@ma...>]

Hi Olivier,

I've no plans to develop a SCala plugin myself, but would welcome
someone else doing so.

The Grinder has a well-defined API for script engines. As well as the
built-in Jython, Java, and Clojure support, I know of at least one
independent engine (https://github.com/DealerDotCom/grinder-groovy).
This type of extension project is easier to manage as a small github
style entities, with their own independent release cycle. The API is
stable, so there should be few compatibilty problems with recent
versions of The Grinder.

As far as I can see, the grinder-scala-archetype doesn't add its own
Scala instrumentation, so it will pass all objects to the Java engine.
This may or may not do the right thing (depending on how Scala Java
binding is implemented). In contrast, the Jython runtime is particularly
complex and so the instrumentation is also complex (and it seems it has
at least one bug - as you know), whereas, the Clojure binding is very
simple, because Clojure has a very simple Java binding (everything's a
function call). But why not try it out, and get in touch with the author?

- Phil

On 14/10/13 10:44, olivier merlin wrote:
> Hello Phil,
>
> I have seen that you have integrated Clojure in TheGrinder .
> That's seems nice but also hard for me because the lisp like syntax is
> quite complex for noobies ...
> and requires i think a lot of effort coming from Python.
>
> I was wondering if scala was not more a good compromise for people
> like me less expert on languages ... so a smooth move to pure
> functional language but with still the possibilities of imperative
> development way.
>
> I have seen that someone has done an attempt to do that : 
> https://github.com/pshemass/grinder-scala-archetype
>
> What do you think of this ? Do you have a plan for Scala ?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Olivier
>