It's not necessarily a bad thing: you can think about the various Scala implementations as dialects in a language family, like Pascal in the old days. It may be

It's not necessarily a bad thing: you can think about the various Scala implementations as dialects in a language family, like Pascal in the old days. It may be difficult to share code between these dialects, but it allows people to write code for a wide variety of environments using the same syntax and nearly-identical semantics.