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username42 on March 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Will Java 8 Kill Scala?

I fully agree. IMHO scala has one problem: the compiler slowness. It is really a marvellously designed language.

virtualwhys on March 27, 2014 [–]

sub projects + incremental builds on a warmed up JVM make for a very quick dev cycle.

Deploying is another matter, full builds lag far behind Java, something that will not be changing anytime soon, scalac is doing a ton of work under the hood.

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