[ESS] Interest in scala support?

[Steve Nunez]

Blair,

Probably the best place to look for interest, besides this list, is the
Spark mailing list. There¹s a thread going on right now about this topic.

I asked a similar question sometime back about Scala environments and the
Spark guys pointed me to ensime; although ensime is helpful, I really miss
being able to send code snippets to the REPL from within emacs. They (the
ensime folks) claim it¹s on their roadmap, but I haven¹t seen any progress
and I have neither the time nor skills. I took the same route as you too,
starting with Tony R and then joined up here to enquire.

The short answer to your question is: OEYes¹, at least one person would be
interested in good interactive Scala support in emacs. I¹m seeing a lot
more interest in Scala in statistics these days, including newly minted
grads learning it just to become OEdata scientists¹.

Cheers,
	- Steve Nunez



On 10/27/14, 14:25, "Blair Christian" <bchristian at pyaanalytics.com> wrote:

>Hi All ,
>
>I'm a 15 year emacs/statistics user (mainly R/Splus, some SAS), and our
>shop is getting ready to bring in scala as a data analysis tool (we'll be
>doing some performance testing against pbdr early next year if anybody is
>interested in hearing about that).
>
>Long story short, I would like to know if there's any interest in
>supporting scala in ESS.  I saw (1) there was some julia support (so I
>see at least one new language with REPL is in ESS) and (2) most of the
>scala IDEs (even the notebooks in intellij (better) and eclipse) aren't
>anywhere near as useful to me as a good old ESS session.  There are quite
>a few different types/versions of scala-modes in emacs, but they are
>using it like a formal software development IDE (eg ensime) as opposed to
>focussing on the interpreter (REPL) for interactive analysis.  [if I'm
>wrong here and there is already great emacs support for interactive scala
>use, please let me know- I grepped through the scala and scala2 emacs
>modes for words like "submit", "step", "line" and didn't see anything]
>[also, just to be clear, I'm not advocating any language over any other,
>it just happens that scala is what our architects decided to go with for
>the next step of our development]
>
>I'm happy to give some time to development if there is some interest - I
>have benefitted so much from the community, otherwise I'll go back to the
>shadows.  Currently I'm probably a C+/B- emacs lisp programmer (probably
>same for my use of ESS), and would need a little hand holding to get
>started.  [The main reason is that ESS works so well for my meager needs
>and has sufficient documentation, that I never have a need to get under
>the hood]
>
>I did google site searches on ESS html and mailing list archive for scala
>and didn't see anything.
>
>Any thoughts?  (offline comments welcome: bchristian at pyaanalytics.com)  I
>ran the idea by Tony R, and he said it'd be best to start here and that
>he thought it was a good idea.
>
>Best,
>Blair
>
>
>
>****IMPORTANT NOTICE****
>
>This E-mail (including any attachments) contains PRIVILEGED AND
>CONFIDENTIAL
>INFORMATION protected by Federal and/or State law and is intended only
>for the
>use of the individual(s) or entity(ies) designated as recipient(s). If
>you are
>not an intended recipient of the E-mail, you are hereby notified that any
>disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the
>contents of
>this E-mail is strictly prohibited. Disclosure to anyone other than the
>intended
>recipient does not constitute a waiver of any applicable privilege.
>
>If you have received this E-mail in error, please immediately notify us
>by phone
>at (800) 270-9629 or reply to the sender of this email and then
>permanently
>delete the original and any copy of this E-mail (including any
>attachments) and
>destroy any printout thereof.
>	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
>______________________________________________
>ESS-help at r-project.org mailing list
>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help



-- 
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE\ NOTICE: This message is intended...{{dropped:14}}