Overview of new features in Scala 2.12
At the time of writing, the next planned release of the language is Scala 2.12. From the user and API perspective, Scala 2.12 does not introduce new ground-breaking features. The goal of the 2.12 release is to improve code optimization and make Scala compliant with the Java 8 runtime. Since Scala's primary target is the Java runtime, making Scala compliant with Java 8 runtime will reduce the size of compiled programs and JAR files, better performance and faster compilation. From the user perspective, the major change is that you will have to install the JDK 8 framework instead of JDK 7.
The particular changes in Scala 2.12 worth mentioning are the following:
- In previous versions, traits compiled to a single ...
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