akka-http and the rest of the ecosystem run fine on Scala 2.11, that's the status quo. The question remains how well Scala 2.12 will help in migrating to JDK 8

akka-http and the rest of the ecosystem run fine on Scala 2.11, that's the status quo. The question remains how well Scala 2.12 will help in migrating to JDK 8. The Github activity of the scalac core contributors [1] [2] [3] shows no hurry on that. [1] https://github.com/adriaanm https://github.com/adriaanm [2] https://github.com/retronym https://github.com/retronym [3] https://github.com/lrytz https://github.com/lrytz