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I'm curious: which conference, and what was the major source of the negativity?
by allengeorge 11y ago
I'm curious: which conference, and what was the major source of the negativity?
- s_kilk 11y agoI don't remember which conference exactly, but I do remember the gist of the complaints. In no particular order: - tooling (such as sbt) is still poor, even after years of complaints and calls to fix it. - no real roadmap for improvements to scala itself in the near future - Dotty being a diversion for the core team, detracting from scala Now, I only dabble in Scala, so I couldn't really comment on any of these, but I did get the impression that there's a lot of un-happiness amongst core users of Scala. (See also allengeorge's comments elsewhere in this thread)
- airless_bar 11y agoThe crazy thing is that all of those points are blatantly false. - There has never been more activity in tooling as in the last half year. There are whole tooling conferences with almost 200 people attending. Tooling has been improved steadily, and people made huge progress on all fronts (ScalaIDE, IntelliJ, Ensime, SBT). Things have improved vastly. - http://scala-lang.org/news/2.12-roadmap/ http://scala-lang.org/news/2.12-roadmap/ http://www.scala-lang.org/news/roadmap-next/ http://www.scala-lang.org/news/roadmap-next/ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/flgnddxPRTk https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/flgn... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/qRgoFK2OOF4 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/qRgo... - Dotty is not developed by the core team. The people working on Dotty are additional resources put into Scala, and they are helping scalac development because they share design approaches and bug fixes with the Scala team.