Yeah, it definitely looks good (to me). Dotty looks really promising to a layman like me especially since it's based on the machine-checked DOT calculus, so should have a better foundation than scalac. Then there are big projects like Spark, Akka, Play etc. But what I like the most about Scala at the moment is the continued effort regarding Scala.js, which seems to be one of the best compile-2-javascript projects. I like ur/web, and what comes the closest to it seems to be scala/scala.js.
I wonder if the collection redesign which is planned for scala 2.13 helps reduce the file size when compiling to js. Hello world is around ~40 kb (minified and gzipped) but goes to 100-150 kb for more involved things.
It's a shame the documentation is so poor for scalajs.
I agree that the way it is presented on that page is confusing, though. I'll add some explanation about that when I get back from conferences.
Thanks for the feedback!
Having said that, I agree it would be good to hear more from people who dislike the current documentation. Scala.js is a great project, and so it seems worthwhile to make any documentation changes that would make it accessible to as wide an audience as possible.
IMO much more important is the fact that Dotty is being developed after several years and iterations of scalac. Ideally this would mean that the problems to be solved, and the different ways to solve them are known. Dotty can do this without having a large legacy inherited code base. To me this is more important.
I'm incredibly impressed with the stewardship of Scala: they did a thorough assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of language and compiler and are working on a complete refoundation of the language semantics and a rewrite of the compiler while also steadily progressing along a multi year roadmap for the current compiler.
Edit: grammar, sry.