I'm somewhat surprised that everybody missed the fact that Scala 2.12 has more to it than just Java 8 compatibility and stability. We're working on replacing t

I'm somewhat surprised that everybody missed the fact that Scala 2.12 has more to it than just Java 8 compatibility and stability. We're working on replacing the whole backend in scalac. We'll ship faster and easier to maintain optimizer that fixes lots of long-standing bugs in scalac. In fact, it will allows us to fix the second most voted issue ever: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4633?jql=project%20%3D%20SI%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20ORDER%20BY%20votes%20DESC https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4633?jql=project%20%... More details: http://magarciaepfl.github.io/scala/ http://magarciaepfl.github.io/scala/ -- Grzegorz, member of Scala team at Typesafe