[lemming]

One of the nice things about compiling to Java source is that it allows you use it with GWT. The only downside that I can see is that there might be constructs that you can't express in Java that you would want in a new language (note that you're fine with ones that you can technically express in Java but are just ugly, like closures). There are probably not very many of them, though.

[DanielRibeiro]

Well, scala can be used with gwt: https://github.com/scalagwt

It was documented on scala, page, but now you have to use the google cache to see this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wqqu7uQ...

[CarlSmotricz]

Exciting! Thanks for the link.

[bunderbunder]

I didn't notice any mention of taking care of the primitive/object divide. That would be high on my wish list.

[baddox]

From a quick scan of the Xtend page, it seems to be fairly backwards compatible with Java source code.