While I usually agree with most things Paul Phillips says, that talk was mostly an exception. There is nothing which can't be fixed by focused work on all the

While I usually agree with most things Paul Phillips says, that talk was mostly an exception. There is nothing which can't be fixed by focused work on all the bits and pieces which need work, and that's exactly what the scalac compiler developers are doing most of the time. So many improvements are coming in every week that I can hardly stand using an older compiler version, because I always know that so much stuff has already substantially improved. Despite what some people say, life in Scala-land is pretty damn good.