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Keyword and default arguments are the most compelling, but also unfortunately backwards incompatible. I'm also digging the delimited-continuations, despite the

by apgwoz 16y ago

Keyword and default arguments are the most compelling, but also unfortunately backwards incompatible. I'm also digging the delimited-continuations, despite the fact that I haven't had a real need for them yet--still fun to play with. The enhanced REPL is also very nice.

riffraff 16y ago
I believe the most important enhancement is the set of changes that went into the compiler itself to make it more usable from IDEs. Give me a development environment for scala with working autocompletion and refactoring tools on the level of eclipse's JDT and I promise I will convert my company :)
- apgwoz 16y ago
  I don't use IDEs, so forgive me for not seeing that as a feature. :)
  - riffraff 16y ago
    well a good text editor can still take advantage of autocompletion, inline error reporting etc ;)
    - apgwoz 16y ago
      Very true. I'm sure ENSIME will certainly make use of it for Emacs, which at some point I'll take advantage of.
whakojacko 16y ago
Keyword and default arguments are quite nice. The main thing thats stopping me from switching so far is the new collections library-I realize its overall a good change (once you get past implicit CanBuildFrom[Repr, B, That] everywhere), but its a non-trivial amount of work to switch things over (which I will have to do eventually anyways, of course)