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Re:The Dotty experimental compiler for Scala now bootstraps by agumonkey on Saturday October 31, 2015 @02:02PM (#10483483)
I'm a tiny bit confused. Is dotty scalac rearchitected or is it new PLT-research/paradigm that will be able to compile scala ?
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Re:The Dotty experimental compiler for Scala now bootstraps by riffraff on Saturday October 31, 2015 @05:27PM (#10484276)
my understanding is that dotty could be the new scalac,

ATM it compiles a subset of scala, but the plan is to make it compile everything and then still provide support for further plt research/scala features.

Their readme[0] and initial announcement[1] are as much details as I know of.

[0] https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/scala-internals/6HL6...

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