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Re:What's Next for Scala by AheadOfTime295 on Saturday April 11, 2020 @04:43PM (#22844077)
Scala 3 could improve on 2.x struggles with supporting JDK 9 and up:

Support features of JDK 11+ https://github.com/scala/scala-dev/issues/139

Support Java Module System https://github.com/scala/scala-dev/issues/529

In comparison language features seem to attract much more attention:

Removing existential types https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/proposal-to-remove-exi...

Significant indentation syntax https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/7083

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Re:What's Next for Scala by pjmlp on Sunday April 12, 2020 @03:16AM (#22846569)
That is a good example why betting on the platform languages is always a long term safer bet than betting the house on guest languages,

Eventually they won't keep up with the underlying platform.

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Re:What's Next for Scala by pas on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:16AM (#22846944)
It's not like it isn't working. Scala runs fine on JDK13 (probably 14 too, but we currently run one Play project in prod on 13).

Java is a pretty safe bet, as it has an outstanding backward compatibility track record.

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