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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by hota_mazi on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:21PM (#22259310)
> The Scala team at Lightbend is working on keeping improving Scala 2 and making sure tooling is still as good as it gets for when Scala 3 is finally released.

This is not true at all, Scala 2 is officially abandoned with the entire team now focused on Dotty [1]:

> we have decided that, rather than developing Scala 2.14, our efforts should go to Scala 3 instead.

[1] https://www.scala-lang.org/2019/12/18/road-to-scala-3.html

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Re:Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM by jvican on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:27AM (#22264992)
No, you're misreading that announcement. The Scala team is working, today, on improving Scala 2.13.x and improving the migration and tooling path to Scala 3, as I said before. The fact that 2.14.x won't be release has nothing to do with the fact that there's a team of 5 or 6 people working on Scala 2 today.
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