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A comment on Dotty 0.2.0-RC1.

Re:Dotty 0.2.0-RC1 by egeozcan on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:20AM (#14752241)
Dotty is apparently the "next generation compiler for Scala": http://dotty.epfl.ch/
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Re:Dotty 0.2.0-RC1 by paulddraper on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:57AM (#14752530)
Yes. It's essentially Scala 3 (though that is a rather foreboding, Python 3 like name).

It's being developed separately from Scala 2. For example, it interops with 2.11 but not 2.12.

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Re:Dotty 0.2.0-RC1 by AheadOfTime295 on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @12:47PM (#14754098)
> It's being developed separately from Scala 2. > For example, it interops with 2.11 but not 2.12.

The Scala 2.12 compiler will soon compile the Scala 3 compiler [1]

[1] https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/2827

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