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Here's a great talk given by Martin Odersky, "A Tour of Scala 3" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rnrx2lo9cw

That talk is almost a year old now :) a lot of progress has been made towards launching Scala 3. The latest Dotty release was March 18 https://dotty.epfl.ch/blog/index.html

Scala 3 combined with Scala.js and GraalVM native compilation will be a killer stack :). You can write code that's as high level as python and typesafe as Haskell. Use the same code on the backend and in-browser with Scala.js. Compile your code to statically linked native executables with instant startup time, great for CLI tools.

In terms of developer experience, Scala 3's compiler is much faster than Scala 2 because the data structure representing incremental compilation is not rebuilt for each compiler phase. The faster compiler can be used with Microsoft's Language Server for a delightful IDE experience, especially in VS Code which is the current recommended editor for Scala 3.




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