Scala - ScheduledFuture

Question

I am trying to implement scheduled future in Scala. I would like it to wait specific time and then execute the body. So far I tried the following, simple approach

Answer 1

All the other solutions use either akka or block a thread per delayed task. A better solution (unless you are already using akka) is to use java's ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor. Here's an example of a scala wrapper for that:

https://gist.github.com/platy/8f0e634c64d9fb54559c