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Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by enlait on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @06:25AM (#11952689)
Aside from very much needed java 8 support in 2.12, Scala, IMO, has little need for more bells and whistles. Making a sound and coherent foundation instead would be much appreciated.

Will it break a lot of codebases? Yes, it will.

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Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by grogs on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @07:22AM (#11952916)
Which is what Dotty is attempting to do, but hopefully with minimal codebase breakage.

There's a tradeoff between breakage and improvement, but I'd like not to wait 10 years before I can use dotty (like python 2 to python 3). We can always have another dotty in 5 years time for another round of rationalisation/simplification.

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