Wow, he saved this for the last paragraph of the interview: next version of Scala, automatic parallel processing of collections. That's actually quite stunnin

Wow, he saved this for the last paragraph of the interview: next version of Scala, automatic parallel processing of collections. That's actually quite stunning, since Scala automatically converts every for statement into an equivalent map/flamtmap/filter combination. That's pretty amazing to consider the power that could offer for some applications on some kinds of multi-core platforms, for essentially zero effort from the programmer. "So you are working on the next version of Scala. Right. That should be out by the end of the year, or January at the latest and the biggest addition, from my perspective, will be to make collections parallel, to able to use the power of multi cores for the collection. So that’s the next step. We actually have that in trunk already, but because we want to be careful for the moment with binary compatibility, to really have something, only bug fix releases, it’s implemented in the distribution, but the release will come out in three months or so."