Fwd: Idle musings on doing E over again

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From: martin odersky <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [e-lang] Idle musings on doing E over again
To: "Mark S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Lex Spoon <[email protected]>




On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> [...] What do you think about an ocap variant of Scala? What would need to
> change? How compatible could it be with existing Scala programs?



Hi Mark,

The main problem that I see here is Java interop. As long as Java is not
capability based the whole thing would be leaky. And then of course there's
the installed Scala base, which we can't break.

We are currently thinking of creating a Scala to Javascript platform though
(I'll have a student at EPFL starting on that soon). The idea would be to
keep the language but adopt JS libraries instead of Java ones. That might
be another chance to do something about it. We'd certainly be very
interested to do the right thing from an ocap viewpoint there.

Happy to have this forwarded on the list.

Cheers

 - Martin


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