[OT] Evolving Scala

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Monday, 24 March 2025 at 17:14:00 UTC, Sergey wrote:
> TL;Must read
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> https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2025/03/24/evolving-scala.html
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> By Martin Odersky

This is where the two languages are very different:

> But other languages are also improving, and so Scala must 
> continue to innovate, improving on both its strengths and 
> weaknesses with a particular focus on the newcomer onboarding 
> experience. There are of course ongoing issues, especially 
> around IDE support and the learnability of the ecosystem, and 
> there will always be concerns about tooling, compatibility, and 
> migration cost as a language evolves. But Scala has no choice 
> but to move forward if it is to maintain its appeal and 
> relevance in the years to come.

D's unwillingness to break anything is killing the language. Not 
even Walter can push changes through. As came up in the YouTube 
video discussion, you can't compile .h files because a few people 
aren't willing to change their build process to add another flag. 
Scala won't have that problem.