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Dotty will inevitably implement the same features with the same fundamental issues. This is not about some old stuff we all regret having in Scala, this is about new low-quality pr…

Don't think so. They won't be able to prevent the language from being run into the ground by SIP/SLIP/SPP committees. Anyway, getting told that I'm not qualified to tell people tha…

> As an observer none of the powers that be took a liking to you calling them out The best way to avoid being called out for saying completely different things in public and privat…

Kotlin is a joke, but Scala's mismanagement and treatment of its contributors might be its undoing. Source: #1/#2 top active community contributor (depends on whether you count com…

I wonder how people come up with these pointless, overcomplicated tutorials...

Why do bloggers focus on lexing and parsing? These things should not take up 80% of the article about creating a programming language. This fascination with "how" to build somethin…

The article isn't very good, even the link to the 'official' page is outdated. Just use sbt-android and skip all the other nonsense. Compilation is impressively fast, as the plugin…

Which issues did you experience?

Which issues did you experience?

I don't think the Scala-on-Android devs have any plans of giving up, they just took a wait-and-see approach until Google ships their new Jack/Jill stack: http://get-scala.org/2.12#…

In my experience it is. The sbt-android plugin is really amazing. It makes compiling with ProGuard enabled as fast as Gradle without ProGuard, due to the plugins integration of inc…

I haven't announced anything and I haven't submitted this link to HN. I just added a comment to let people know that I might read and try to answer questions if they have any. This…

I'm the main author of this page (I took the "official" release notes and rewrote/extended them massively). Feel free to ask questions! (Please note that 2.12 hasn't been released …

If I remember correctly, for 2.12 the compiler will generate additional forwarder methods, which mitigates the performance issues, but increases file size again. It's still a lot s…

Not officially announced/released yet, but here are (better) release notes: http://get-scala.org/2.12