Before I clicked the link I knew which video it would be. For some reason it's largely the single fact that people on nyc seem remember about Scala. If you wat

Before I clicked the link I knew which video it would be. For some reason it's largely the single fact that people on nyc seem remember about Scala. If you watch the presentation by Odersky you'll find that the new compiler addresses most if not all the things that Paul Philips mentioned. For instance the new compiler has 5 phases. Just like javac.