The point, from the project page: > The goal of Metascala is to create a platform to experiment with the JVM: a 3000 line JVM written in Scala is probably much

The point, from the project page: > The goal of Metascala is to create a platform to experiment with the JVM: a 3000 line JVM written in Scala is probably much more approachable than the 1,000,000 lines of C/C++ which make up HotSpot, the standard implementation, and more amenable to implementing fun features like continuations, isolates or value classes.