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Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by premium-concern on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:43AM (#11953806)
The plan is to get the feature sets closer together, not to diverge.
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Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by nrinaudo on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:50AM (#11953857)
Absolutely. I'm saying I fear reality and theory might diverge and we find ourselves with a split language / community. I highly doubt anybody set out to write Python 3 thinking "it'll mess with the community for years to come, muhahaha".
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Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by premium-concern on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @12:44PM (#11955237)
Scala devs have the tools to make sure it doesn't happen, Python didn't.
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