random comments: There are a lot of scala books for different target audiences, 19 in various languages, (the 3 Manning Meaps are half-done chapter wise, : ht

random comments: There are a lot of scala books for different target audiences, 19 in various languages, (the 3 Manning Meaps are half-done chapter wise, : http://www.scala-lang.org/node/959 http://www.scala-lang.org/node/959 http://manning.com/raychaudhuri http://manning.com/raychaudhuri http://manning.com/suereth http://manning.com/suereth ---------------- Re: compiler speed: backgrounders on type inference, http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/Partial-type-inference-td2007311.html http://scala-programming-language.1934581.n4.nabble.com/Part... http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~odersky/papers/#Types http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~odersky/papers/#Types http://staticallytyped.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/solution-in-scala-to-the-previous-post/ http://staticallytyped.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/solution-in-... (see comments) -------------- the type checker: http://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala/browser/scala/trunk/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/TypeDiagnostics.scala http://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala/browser/scala/trunk/src/co... and specialization in 2.8: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4256273/why-did-scalas-library-double-its-size-and-will-that-happen-again http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4256273/why-did-scalas-li... As an aside, you can't really declare anything a problem in scala til you've asked #scala freenode IRC, the mailing lists and/or stackoverflow and gotten their takes on your issue.