Refuted by anecdote ;) In the first few months of working at my current job I triggered three different bugs in the Scala compiler (2.10.x IIRC). That said, I

Refuted by anecdote ;) In the first few months of working at my current job I triggered three different bugs in the Scala compiler (2.10.x IIRC). That said, I think most people - me included - don't reach for "compiler error" until we've exhausted every other possibility.