[adriaanm]

Without getting too philosophical, I don't see what's so ominous about the present not being the future or vice versa. All we have is the present, really.

It's easy to verify for yourself who's working on Scala right now: https://github.com/scala/scala/graphs/contributors (work on Dotty started around 2012, when I moved from EPFL to Typesafe).

Myself, retronym & lrytz are on the Scala team at Lightbend. I'm proud of what we've accomplished with 2.10, 2.11 (8 minor releases!) and 2.12 (RC1 coming soon -- see my comment above), and excited about what the future holds for Scala! We work together closely with Martin's Dotty team, exchanging ideas about compiler performance and convergence of language features in Scala 2 and Dotty (the incubator for the future of Scala).

[nrinaudo]

If you feel my comments were dismissive of your work, or your team's work, then I owe you an apology. You're right to be proud of what you've done, it's quite a list of achievements and I can only hope I ever produce work of that quality.

[adriaanm]

Thanks, I appreciate it! Also, thank you for sharing your feedback & concerns. I acknowledge we need to communicate more.