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Re:Typelevel Scala and the future of the Scala ecosystem by eeperson on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @06:48PM (#8260614)
Don't compiler plugins provide a way to provide a way to experiment with language changes more quickly?
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Re:Typelevel Scala and the future of the Scala ecosystem by propensive on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @05:45AM (#8262199)
Compiler plugins are powerful, but still too limited. We can't change parsing rules with a compiler plugin, for example. There are also potential compatibility issues with using some set of compiler plugins, and there's a performance penalty of implementing new features with plugins (which, by their very nature, are optional), rather than in the core compiler.
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Re:Typelevel Scala and the future of the Scala ecosystem by eugene_burmako on Thursday September 04, 2014 @03:31AM (#8267131)
What kind of performance issues are you having in mind?
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