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Description
Proposed change
Scala is an essential part of today's data engineering landscape. It would therefore be very helpful if there were a way to create Scala Docker images using repo2docker, especially given that toree already was and spylon seems to be on the brink of being removed from the existing Jupyter base images.
Almond is a modern and actively maintained alternative to toree and spylon and could be used to create Scala base images.
Alternative options
- Get involved in Toree and try to keep it maintained
Who would use this feature?
- Data engineers wanting to try out things in Spark
- Scala developers and people looking to get into Scala
How much effort will adding it take?
Looking at the Julia implementation, it would probably be a matter of 1-2 man days.
Who can do this work?
I could give this a try with some help from people more familiar with repo2docker.