> But it also would have been a Pyrrhic victory, because you'd have lost the ability to run any existing Scala code, which would have scads of dependencies on o

> But it also would have been a Pyrrhic victory, because you'd have lost the ability to run any existing Scala code, which would have scads of dependencies on other bits of the JDK as well, on Scala for .NET. At which point, what's the point? Wouldn't it be in the same boat as scala-js? There are quite a few libraries that support scala-jvm and scala-js.