[nrinaudo]

My fear is that the feature sets diverge enough that we get two very similar but distinct languages and a split community.

I'm not afraid that the experiments have moved to Dotty. That's an ideal scenario, if successful ones are indeed ported to Scala. I'm just not convinced they will be.

[premium-concern]

The plan is to get the feature sets closer together, not to diverge.

[nrinaudo]

Absolutely. I'm saying I fear reality and theory might diverge and we find ourselves with a split language / community. I highly doubt anybody set out to write Python 3 thinking "it'll mess with the community for years to come, muhahaha".

[premium-concern]

Scala devs have the tools to make sure it doesn't happen, Python didn't.