<story><title>Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala</title><url>http://dotty.epfl.ch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joneholland</author><text>We are a big scala shop at Expedia and it&amp;#x27;s concerning that Martin is more interested in Dotty.&lt;p&gt;Scala 2.12 is late, and not having easy java8 interoperability is becoming more and more of an issue.&lt;p&gt;I love the language but it is becoming harder to recommend it for new things due to the ambiguous roadmap.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala</title><url>http://dotty.epfl.ch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walkingolof</author><text>Looking forward to this, its a bold step to start from &amp;quot;scratch&amp;quot;, but in return the Scala community will get a compiler that have solid theoretical foundation, better performance and more utility for development tools.&lt;p&gt;Scala&amp;#x27;s Road Ahead - by Martin Odersky
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