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Re:Policy – A fork of the Scala compiler by nathancahill on Friday September 05, 2014 @07:10PM (#8276778)
> "The leadership of scala has shown itself unfit stewards of the core technologies and the total price paid by scala programmers (actual and potential) is too high. I failed for half a decade to change that from the inside. Now I'll try from the outside."
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Re:Policy – A fork of the Scala compiler by rch on Friday September 05, 2014 @07:12PM (#8276790)
That's a strongly worded statement for a front page, but I wish I knew something more about the situation. What progress is being held back? I've not written a line of Scala myself.
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Re:Policy – A fork of the Scala compiler by tormeh on Friday September 05, 2014 @08:20PM (#8276974)
Internals, mostly, I think. Correctness. According to Phillips, the internals of scalac are a complete mess, and the runtime generated code is also non-ideal. Basically, all sorts of software best practices are being broken to achieve performance and ensure Scala is a superset of Java.
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